Hi Thomas, Thomas Schmidt wrote on Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 03:30:56PM +0100: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:03:36PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> somebody wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>>> Never know. OpenBSD is not generally known as an exposed democracy. >>>This made me chuckle out loud :) >> Well, it makes me laugh out loud too. >> >> We are succesfully making good software, using a scheme called >> undemocratic. >> >> How un-American of us. >> >> Laughing again? You must be a terrorist. > I'm sure someone already made this joke, but here it goes: > You could pretty much call this system a Theocracy. With the subtle difference that gods usually suffer from a nasty habit of messing with everything, are obsessed with wanting to know everything, and voluntarily misdesign the system to be essentially incomprehensible by mortals - while Theo doesn't mess with what he doesn't understand but instists that each part be as easy to understand as possible, even where he doesn't personally spend the time to do so. Besides, parts of OpenBSD could more fittingly be descibed as marcracies, miocracies, jasocracies, matthieucracies, kencracies, nicracies, and so on. As a matter of fact, there are at least two distinct nicracies, twice as many as theocracies. In german, you would call that eine Machtfrage: Wer macht's? ;-) Ingo
