Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

Michael C. Shultz reso3w83 at verizon.net
Sat Feb 12 09:26:48 GMT 2005


On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:58 am, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:26:05 +0100, Anthony Atkielski
>
> <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Julio Capote writes:
> > > A website like www.spreadfirefox.com aims at targetting firefox
> > > to regular users that may not get the full "marketing dosage"
> > > from www.mozilla.org, so why not do the same for freebsd?
> >
> > Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop.  The real market
> > potential is on the server side.  And if you want to convince large
> > organizations to adopt FreeBSD as a server, you must not present it
> > as a substitute for Windows desktops, a/k/a "regular users."
>
> This is BULLSHIT. Not just any any bullshit either but virulent
> stinky bullshit - and also coincidentially the best way to dispromote
> FreeBSD.
>
> > --
> > Anthony

I Agree!  My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What
ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows
machines, never my own because it always just works.  To be fair though
Xorg and KDE deserve some credit credit for this as well.

-Mike
  


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