Thanks, everyone
Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+netbsd-advocacy <at> bjan.net>
2003-07-06 05:58:44 GMT
Hey everyone,
I've been using netbsd for a few months now, and just wanted to say
thanks to everyone who has contributed for what a great job they've
done. If I had loads of money, I'd give you some of it; in the absence
of that, you'll just have to make do with this little email 
I first heard of "UNIX" in 1998 when I was 15, when I accidentally stumbled
on an article in a British PC enthusiasts magazine that mentioned "Red
Hat Linux." One thing led to another, and I ended up with a the
Slackware Linux "A" series on a stack of ~15 disks -- my computer didn't
have a modem or NIC, and I had no CD burner. I downloaded them overnight
on my parents' AOL UK account.
After several years of happiness using Linux, I tried FreeBSD a few
months ago. I had become rather dissolusioned with the "Linux
community." So much seems to be motivated by "Conquering the Desktop,"
"Defeating Microsoft," passing laws mandating open source in government, and
other irrelevent or negative goals.
Of course, this is not an entirely new thing: the GNU people have always
been vagely anti-corporate, and the slashdot crowd are only unusually
pathetic advocates of a position I'm rather skeptical of on a personal
level. However, the GNU people have several million lines of code to
their credit -- something that can't be laughed at.
I liked FreeBSD, but there were several irritations: most of them
fixable, but some rather deeper. In particular, I didn't like how
"ports" were installed into /usr/local. Much of my hardware either
didn't work or required undocumented kernel options to work.
(Continue reading)
Are you suggesting that we should protect the website design of
NetBSD.org with a tougher license than the one we use for the hundreds
of megabytes of C code we provide? 
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