On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, ?????? ??? wrote:
My other question is, those of you who answer questions and debug problems on this list, what do you all get out of it? I feel kind of selfish asking for what is basically free technical support; how best can I repay you all?
When you become knowledgeable, start answering questions yourself. I rarely have anything to contribute, but when I do I'll answer a question.
As to why, there's an element of long-term self-interest: the more successes there are, the larger the user base becomes, the more experts develop. As a FreeBSD user, it's in my interest to have a large installed base and a large and robust user community since this will (I think and hope) ultimately mean more awareness from hardware makers and thus a continued supply of hardware I can use. Well, applications software too.
And if you become an expert, maybe you can answer *my* question next time :^)
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