On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:00:39 +0000, Michael Quaintance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>JCR, > >/Please/ don't loose your verbosity. > >For newbies like me, your lengthy descriptions of why the OpenBSD >community thinks like it does are incredibly useful. Short, pithy >explanations like Tony's are great for people who already understand but >those of us just starting on our quest can often find them as cryptic as >the proverbs of Buddha. Michael, Please do not mistake me and my opinions for the opinions of the OpenBSD community in general. OpenBSD users and developers actually thrive on the conflict of differing opinions; a reasonably friendly competition to figure out and prove both what works and what works best. More importantly, do not mistake my opinions as being those of an OpenBSD DEVELOPER. Though some of them might agree with me, others will not. The OpenBSD developers have their own community and social group which is private, exclusive and based on what you do. Unless you have the dedication it takes to do a *LOT* for the project you'll never know what their community is like. I'm not a developer and not part of their internal community but I do know it exists. I'm just a normal user who doesn't contribute a great deal to the project, so there is a *HUGE* difference between me and the people who actually have both the expertise and dedication needed to write quality code to improve the project. -To them, I'm just another loud mouth chatting away on misc@ rather than doing something more productive. Kind Regards, JCR
