RE: Leaving the Desktop Market
"Person, Roderick" <[email protected]>
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-----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randi Harper > >You know you opened a can of worms with that one. Because all the nerds are going to step up and say "Well, I run FreeBSD on my >desktop! It's totally viable!" > >Dear nerds, get some perspective. You aren't an end user, and you're masochistic. It's okay, we accept you here. But your individual >use case doesn't indicate a place in the market. Your basement isn't a market. It's a basement. Your small company isn't a market. It's a >small company. Many companies combined create a market. Why aren't all the nerds and small businesses out there a market? I'm no marketing expert or anything, but it would seem that there is some kind of market out there that isn't being catered to. I may be a masochist, but I refuse to have to pay Apples prices for their hardware. They just seem insane to me. If they ever decided to sell OS X for non-Apple hardware I might use it. And just for the record I've been using FreeBSD as an exclusive home desktop since 1999. At work now so however Outlook mangles this is my fault :) Rod Person Programmer (412)454-2616 Just because it can been done, does not mean it should be done. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"