Re: Crunch "Tweaks" OpenBSD

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On  Mon, Mar  04,  2002 at  10:53:20PM  +0000, Andrew  Basterfield
wrote:

> [. . .] maintained by someone with more than half a braincell.

And there  you've hit the  nail on the  head. As I see  it, John's
targeted his product to those  with =< 0.5 braincells. And, let me
tell you, there're a  whole heck of a lot more  of them than there
are of us.

If you have even half a brain cell, you'll recognize the marketing
hype for  what it is. You still  might buy one of  these if you're
lazy, but that's a separate matter.

But if you're  in the sub-semi-braincell majority,  you won't have
any clue about how to do  these sorts of things for real. I rather
suspect that the  CrunchBox is a pretty good product,  for what it
is. I'll  even  go  so  far  as  to  bet  something  minor--lunch,
say--that  it's  superior  to  anything  offered  by  Linksys  and
friends. If I'm right, that means that, should sales take off, the
rest of us probably would have a lot less crap to deal with coming
from  zombies  whose  owners  either  used  nothing  or  something
inferior.

Products  like this  have  their place  in  the world. Heck,  they
probably have a  bigger place than that taken by  the right way to
do things. I, for one, am glad  to see somebody giving people what
they  want with  a healthy  dose of  what they  need mixed  in and
designed to not look too much like broccoli.

Go for it, John!

> -Andrew

b&

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