Open Vs Free BSD

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Kip Macy <kmacy at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Individuals in each of the camps (Free, Open, Net) are frequently
> deeply invested in their platforms of choice to the point where they
> identify with them. In addition, many if not most of us are only
> familiar with one of them. Thus, it isn't really fair to ask us to
> compare the three. You will enjoy more success by asking each of the
> three projects what their respective strengths are.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kip
>


During reading of questions and answers to such comparison issues it is
possible to observe one very important ( in my opinion , missing ) concept :

In engineering , there is no an abstract < better than > concept by itself .

As an example we  may compare : bicycle , motorcycle , car , lorry , bus .
aeroplane , boat , ship , transatlantic , train , ... Which one is better
than the other one ?

If you give an answer that < x is better than y > you are implicitly using a
MEASURE of COMPARISON to solve a PROBLEM .

When that the very MEASURE of COMPARISON for the PROBLEM is not specified ,
the abstract comparison is NOT useful and meaningful .

For that reason , it is useful at the beginning to give a description of the
problem in precise terms and then ask which tool solves this problem with
respect to the others
with respect to advantages and disadvantages of the tools .

After enumerating these ideas it is possible to make decisions to select an
appropriate one which solves the problem as much as possible .

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk