> > You are spending a lot of time telling very skilled people that > you are both ignorant on this topic AND how to do their jobs. >
I understand what you're saying, even though I'm not entirely sure things are as you describe. However, it already seems important to me that I managed to understand because, honestly, I didn't think I had been offensive. My mindset was to contribute what I know to improve the project. But you're absolutely right; being quite ignorant, my attempts to contribute might come across as unpleasant or even offensive. However, I usually don't respond in kind if someone offends me. Furthermore, the underlying question of my message was, how do I check the kernel's integrity? And my suggestions were a response to this underlying question. Honestly, it doesn't seem offensive to me to ask a question. But evidently, I'm mistaken. Perhaps someone believes that the question is actually rhetorical and aimed at criticizing the entire project. But as far as I'm concerned, it's not. > You know what is offensive around here? > * Telling developers how they should spend their efforts. > * Being offended when someone suggests YOU demonstrate work. > * Taking pride in your ignorance on how to do something but > assuming you have the right to tell others to utilize their > skill. > * Suggesting that because Linux does something, OpenBSD should > do it without understanding how WRONG so much of Linux is (at > least in an OpenBSD mindset). > > Linux has become Windows Reinvented Badly. You seem to think > OpenBSD should become Linux Reinvented Badly. That's offensive. These religious wars honestly seem prehistoric to me. Very much akin to football fanatics or political squabbles, I found them tiresome in the late '90s, and now I just can't stomach them. Moral judgments about reality don't solve problems, because the problems remain despite how much you might express that they are ugly and bad. As for the rest, I apologize if I have been offensive. I didn't think I was, but indeed my presumption can be unsettling. I understand that now. I apologize.
