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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stronghold and other binaries for OpenBSD 2.0
Date: 31 Mar 1997 10:49:36 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <5hp100$ide$1@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <5hbjqi$20j@ocean.silcom.com> <5hkl95$kaj@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <5hkq3f$b37@azure.dstc.edu.au> <5hkv70$tnd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>
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In article <5hkv70$tnd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>, Woody Jin <wjin@cs.uh.edu> wrote:
>My point here is that if your free software is very hard to install/configure
>and takes lots of time for the users to install, then it is not really free
>software, because you spend too much time.
Well, "nothing's free."
>However, I still don't agree with the idea of "you install all OS's and
>compare them". In order to install an OS, you have to dedicate a machine
>and enourmous amount of time to it (especially to the novice who asks
>such questions). It is not as simple it is to the experienced developers
>as they might consider.
I found it simple enough when i first tried, with no real Unix
administration experience at the time. If someone asks the question
"What's better?" on Usenet, he very likely has lots of spare time, or
he wouldn't be asking on Usenet. If you don't have any time, hire a
consultant to pick and install an OS for you. To claim that free
software isn't "free" is pointless.
rone
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