On 04/19/2017 22:22, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65...@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."
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