Subject: Re: NetBSD review by Paul Webb
To: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/19/2004 23:21:32
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Ben Collver wrote:
> http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/04/10/19/1753228.shtml?tid=122

``I've never read as much bullsh*t in so little text.

The person obviously never looked at NetBSD in detail, nor has any deep 
understanding of concepts like performance and security, else it would be 
obvious that they are not something that NetBSD has to brag about, but 
rather something that's considered normal.

Of course if you have nothing else to sell you can say "we're oh so 
secure" or "hey, we have all the cool GUI stuff, we can afford the bloat" 
- NetBSD won't, given it's constraints given through the portability. 
NetBSD has to offer state of the art operating system that OF COURSE is 
secure, and OF COURSE is performance optimized, and OF COURSE has about 
all the drivers available. But there's more to that other than the things 
that every operating system offers OF COURSE these days.

Blindly ignoring the facts and judging by some marketing slogan and 
hear-say proves that the author has no technical background for his 
writing at all, and obviously doesn't know any code of ethics for writing.


  - Hubert (in bad mood)''

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