On 11/22/13 12:34 PM, System Administrator wrote: > Hi J. Lewis, > > I am not a developer, but I've been lurking on this list for a very > long time and on that basis can tell you that you've committed two > cardinal sins as far as this mailing list is concerned: > > 1) you failed to do your homework -- had you done some research, in > particular about the OpenBSD development philosophy, you would know > that
Hi, Jacob. It's unclear to me exactly what homework you think I failed to do. I am aware of and like lots of things that the OpenBSD project strives for. > 2) OpenBSD is the ultimate volunteer effort -- the developers do > it in their "free" time FOR PERSONAL FUN. Many of them have made > it very clear that they would cease development if it stops being > fun. Your original message (title and intro) goes to the heart of this > issue. Its tone and attitude is no different than the efforts in the > Bible Belt to ban Mark Twain's Huckleberry Fin from public libraries, > i.e. since somebody finds some content to be "offensive" lets get rid > of it irrespective of the overall true value or consideration for the > fact that the author has used the "offensive" language ON PURPOSE. I don't see it that way. Huckleberry Finn is a book, and I don't need to read it unless I want to. The spamd(8) man page is a man page I need to read in order to understand how to use spamd. And if the author of the spamd(8) man page did use the "offensive" language on purpose and thinks it's important to keep it that way, I would accept that. I'd disagree, but I'd accept that. But it seems the author doesn't think it's so important either way. So, I don't get the strong resistance. Thanks, Lewis
