Re: [Nolug] "Debian kFreeBSD is a toy OS, people really shouldn't misunderstand that"

Jeremy <listbox@unix-boy.com> writes:

> As long as my choices are never only Windows OR Linux on commodity
> hardware, I don't care what market share *BSD has. Any Linux
> user/hacker/zealot that is happy about the prospect that *BSD is
> dying/dead/irrelevant has taken a position totally contrary to what
> the whole Free and Open Source schtick is about.

Agreed. You will always have the freedom to run *BSD. Market share
only matters in as much as keeping up the current hardware and protocols
matter. Sometimes (SSH), *BSD has done a great job in this area.

If you're content with the hardware and software available to you now,
then all is good, *BSD probably won't be a problem.

> I guess some in the Linux world are adopting the Microsoft mentality.
>
> "You are free to use open source if you want, as long as it is Linux."

Knee-jerk, religious pro-Linux attitudes are just as bad as knee-jerk,
religious anti-Microsoft attitudes so many in the free software world

Mark

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