On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Kip Macy <km...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Individuals in each of the camps (Free, Open, Net) are frequently > deeply invested in their platforms of choice to the point where they > identify with them. In addition, many if not most of us are only > familiar with one of them. Thus, it isn't really fair to ask us to > compare the three. You will enjoy more success by asking each of the > three projects what their respective strengths are. > > > Cheers, > Kip >
During reading of questions and answers to such comparison issues it is possible to observe one very important ( in my opinion , missing ) concept : In engineering , there is no an abstract < better than > concept by itself . As an example we may compare : bicycle , motorcycle , car , lorry , bus . aeroplane , boat , ship , transatlantic , train , ... Which one is better than the other one ? If you give an answer that < x is better than y > you are implicitly using a MEASURE of COMPARISON to solve a PROBLEM . When that the very MEASURE of COMPARISON for the PROBLEM is not specified , the abstract comparison is NOT useful and meaningful . For that reason , it is useful at the beginning to give a description of the problem in precise terms and then ask which tool solves this problem with respect to the others with respect to advantages and disadvantages of the tools . After enumerating these ideas it is possible to make decisions to select an appropriate one which solves the problem as much as possible . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"