FreeBSD Popularity

[Zane C.B.]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:06:21 -0800
Charlie Kester <corky1951 at comcast.net> wrote:

> No, it's more than the GPL licensing, although that's bad enough.
> 
> GNU software is often bloated. Way too many commandline switches
> (using an overly verbose syntax). Feature creep everywhere, not
> just on the commandline. 
> 
> It runs counter to the basic Unix philosophy of small, cooperating
> programs, each doing one thing and doing it well.
> 
> If you don't understand that there's an aesthetic aspect to Unix,
> you'll miss what a lot of people are complaining about with GNUish
> stuff.

General to me it has felt to be the complete opposite. In that they
are fairly feature barren to what exists for FreeBSD.
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