Subject: Re: OT: apple's marketing is just insolent
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/19/2002 11:51:55
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:03:11PM -0500, vodka@intoxicate.us wrote:
> > > because of all those M$ applications that come with MacOS X now. There's
> > > also this thing about having these super-friendly, super-cute GUIs and
> > > applications. They attract the wrong kind of people (stupid people), and
> > > that is one reason why I use NetBSD. The userbase is excellent.
> >
> > It's comments like this that degrade the userbase of NetBSD. Grow up.
>
> do you like NetBSD to have just lots of users?
He said "degrade", as in "make us all look stupid", not "decrease".
> Grow up
If people would restrict themselves to relevant, defensible commentary
(and by "people", I mean you Wojciech), then their maturity and
character would not be so much at issue at all the time.
Frederick