Disappointed

[Andrew Reilly]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> Apparently simply asking and 
> knowing it's available is sufficient, meaning that they tend not to be very 
> profitable business ventures, as apparently few people actually need 
> support :-).  I guess the FreeBSD documentation and mailing lists provide 
> pretty decent first tier support so most people never need a next tier.

This is one of the nubs of the "worse is better" philosophy.
You won't build a viable ecosystem around something unless it
has a certain inherent level of crappyness that *always* needs
third-party fixing.  Once you have that ecosystem, there's that
large interest vested in ensuring that you and your crappyness
survive...

Personally, I'm very grateful that FreeBSD has always had the
"better is better" philosophy, so that most of the time things
just work, and even when they don't, they have a tendency to
improve steadily over time.

Please keep up the good (great!) work.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew