Correction of a few typos I noticed: On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 12:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat wrote: > All operating systems and licenses have got pros and cons. > If you want to compare operating systems and licenses you should list > pros and cons of the mentioned operating systems, excluding untruth. ^ and licenses
> If you just want to mention pros of an operating system and > licenses, don't add comparisons at all and list the pros and the cons, > excluding untruth. Probably without mentioning the cons. Not necessarily a good idea. Just imagine somebody buying hardware that isn't supported. > If you mention things that could be considered different > regarding the point of view, such as 'spyware', underpin it by > providing facts/links. > > Indeed some phone home options off FLOSS could be considered as > spyware, but FreeBSD as well as Linux maintainers and users could > decide to build with disabling phone home flags and don't need to use > data collecting software at all. Some users even consider some phone > home options as not being spyware, but a good tool for developers to > improve FLOSS software. > > An example: > > [rocketmouse@archlinux extra-x86_64]$ grep python2\ waf\ configure > PKGBUILD -A7 > python2 waf configure --prefix=/usr \ > --configdir=/etc \ > --with-backends="jack,alsa" \ > --libjack=weak \ > --optimize \ > --docs \ > --cxx11 \ > --no-phone-home > > Even while the ardour developers are unlikely spying, the phone home ^^^^^^^^^^ main developer the community helps > flag could collide with security measures, e.g. at a given time ardour > provides useful data for development, not over a tor network and at the > same time a browser is used for Internet research. Under some ^1^^^^^ tor browser > circumstances this might be unfavourable. > > Ardour is the only professional DAW available for FreeBSD as well as > Linux. It's GPL'ed without any side effect. It's free as in beer, but > the developer makes living out of it. ^^^^^^^^^ main developer > Controversial software such as (another example) Ubuntu's 'shopping > lens' aren't Linux as a whole, it's some software provided by a Linux > distro, that nobody is enforced to install in the first place. Just start with a minimal install or server image. > However, your blog is nothing else, but good for redirecting it to > /dev/null. > > It's bogus. It neither satisfies a good description of the pros and cons > of FreeBSD, neither of Linux. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"