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 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. -Jacob. On 22 Nov 2013 at 12:06, J. Lewis Muir wrote: ... > > I'm a little puzzled over the whole resistance to the patch. If I > wrote a man page for some software I wrote, and if an example in it was > considered off-color by someone, and that someone submitted a patch to > me to change it slightly to no longer be off-color to them, and they > asked in a kind way, and the patch didn't hurt the clarity of the man > page in any way, I would likely accept the patch. How am I hurt by it? > I may not agree with the person, but why would I insist on keeping an > example that seems off-color to them? If it's somehow offensive to them > and can be changed in a small way not to be, then I would accept the > patch to change it. Everybody wins--no big deal. > > Lewis
