Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Mel Pilgrim]

On 04/19/2017 22:22, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>> (Right now, it's quite hard to resist the paranoid suspicion that
>> maybe this crazy, anti-real-user behavior is a subtle way to kill
>> freebsd altogether by driving away the non-hobbyists.)
> 
> That's one explanation.
> 
> The other, possible, explanation, is that the efforts of a group of
> volunteers isn't adequate enough for every use case -- including your own.
> 
> But, of course, feel free to cast aspersions wherever and whenever.  We're
> just machines, we have no feelings whatsoever.
> 
> Now if no one minds, I'm going to go back to contemplate the existential
> question of "why do I even bother trying to fix things".

Because the work you and everyone else does on FreeBSD makes it possible 
for me to do the work I do for dozens of non-profits who need safe, 
reliable network and internet services without paying retail or being 
pigeonholed into an online provider's one-size product.

For every scratch65535, there's one like me who doesn't have to deal 
with the expense of Windows servers or the increasingly black-box nature 
of Linux distros without also having to compile everything from scratch 
on the weekly.

Mel, the IT admin who gets to run 11-R and -CURRENT in exchange for free 
books and actually helping people because she doesn't have to say things 
like, "I can do that, but the licensing is half your 5-year budget."