Really people, can we take the advocacy to chat or private email? Oh and btw, the number of nodes on freenet is ~ 4000-16000.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:53:38PM -0400, Michael R. Stork wrote: > David Masover wrote: > > >>an excuse to tell them how ignorant they are for "not doing it your way" > >> > >> > > > >I was suggesting my way. I wasn't implying that anyone was stupid. > > > Perhaps it wasn't you that made the first comment, but the first person > who started talking about Linux in this thread did so by implying that > doing anything other then installing Linux was stupid and a waste of > time. If that wasn't you, then you just jumped on the Linux rant after that. > > >>niche that's not going to be supported by the mainstream. And, if it > >> > >> > > > >I suspect that this niche would include much of freenet. If I don't even > >trust my ISP, how am I supposed to trust Microsoft? > > > I NEVER said I trusted Microsoft ! I don't even really like Microsoft, > and I agree that Windows isn't a great OS. What I disagree with is your > assertion that it's possible to do all the same things with Linux as you > can with Windows. Yes, there is more software being produced now that > will run under Linux, but there's no where near the same variety. > > >>ever does take off, and surplant Windows as the standard, then the > >>hackers will just start writing their malicious code to infect it, and > >> > >> > > > >It's already got something like 25-30% of the web server market. Don't > >you think they've been trying? Maybe it's the open-source nature, or the > >engineering of these systems that makes them more secure? > > > > > And ? You're just helping make my point. 25-30% of a small portion of > the total computer market is what in terms of totla number of computers > ? I'm still guessing it's less then 1%. Most of Freenet, how many > Freenet nodes are out there ? 2500 or so ? Again, a small niche market. > I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with Linux. I've said several > times now, that I agree that Linux is more secure then Windows, I just > think that using any oppurtunity to try to push it is just plain stupid. > The average computer user, not technician or programmer, is running > Windows. When they ask for help configuring a piece of software, so that > Freenet works ON THIER SYSTEM, telling them to go out and buy another > system to install Linux on, or that they should wipe their existing OS > and run Linux, just so that they can run a Freenet node is moronic. If > you want to expand Freenet, the way to do it is not by making it seem > like the only way to do so is on a Linux system. > > As to responding more intelligently then the ranter, well I'd say that > isn't all that tough to do. What is hard to do is is to have a > reasonable discussion when the other person chops out the majority of > your post, and then responds to a small snippet as if that were it's > entirety. (Yes, I snipped a bunch from this last post, cheifly the more > insulting crap.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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