Tucows BSD Section Goes Down in Flames

BSD Today ran a comment on Tucows shutting down the Tucows BSD Section after flames from the BSD community about the misinformation they had on the site. Tucows says that they cannot meet the demands of all the "factions" within the BSD camp. It's a cop-out in my opinion; BSD Today and Daemon News seem to do it fine. All any of us asked for was for the inflammatory pro-linux/anti-BSD flavor of it to be toned down, and the misinformation cleared up. DaemonNews also carries some appropriate comments.

Comments

This Linux/BSD user is glad it's gone!

[benmhall]

Sorry to say it, but their BSD site was utter garbage.

I'm not kidding.

I've got a few BSD servers, I'm running Linux on my workstation, I love both. TUCOWS did a great job with Linuxberg, but their feeble attempt at a BSD site did WAY more harm than good.

Did any of you complaining about the BSD community actually visit the site before they shut it down? It sucked. It really sucked.

It had potential, if they had had a few people who actually used and believed in BSD products. They didn't. They slapped it together, made gross inaccurate statements about BSD, and never chnged their ways.

Sorry, it had to be said. If it had been a Linux site, the Linux community would have chewed them out at least as badly.

Linux vs. BSD: Reminds me of Jimmy "J.J." Walker

[G-Man]

...he of "Dyn-O-Mite!" fame. Talking about Northern Ireland:

"You've got Protestants killing Catholics, Catholics killing Protestants. I guess it goes to show you -- without Blacks or Jews, people will improvise!"

Is this really surprising?

[mcrbids]

If you were trying to do something constructive, and put honest effort into it, you'd expect SOME reward for doing so.

At least, you'd expect nobody to fault you for your creative efforts.

But what if, while you were going about your stuff, you had a large crowd of people standing around you, shouting insults, throwing beer cans at you, and pointedly making the case that despite the fact that you are TRYING to get something done, you can't possibly do the job as well as THEY, even though THEY aren't doing it?

Wouldn't that just piss you off? Would you want to keep going?

So we have a bunch of snooty, nose-in-the-air types who just can't seem to accept being belittled to the level of (gasp!) TUCOWS, who also work with (HEH!) WINDOWS SOFTWARE!, who've spoiled an ally in their cause, and halted a nice effort.

I wonder how many of these intensely critical remarks came from people who just figured out how to boot BSD?

Way to go, guys! Hope you're proud!

Let this be a lesson: You'll catch a HELL of alot more bees with honey than with vinegar...

-Ben

what a surprise...

[laserjet]

To quote from Tucows:

When Tucows periodically gets something "wrong" on the BSD site, we receive a barrage of angry user comments. Paradoxically, when we use this advice to make adjustments we receive an equally prolific battering from other BSD factions indicating that we had it correct to begin with. Any attempt to provide a middle ground only results in hostility from all sides.


Boy, this doesn't sound like the Slashdot crowd *I* know...