On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:09:08PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > twice a year (or maybe more) when it comes to money issues, Theo and > the devs ask for donations, cd purchases. at the same time, people > are every once in a while reminded how "lucky" they are to use what > the devs create solely "for themselves". this brainwashing is so > effective even some other advocators are using it now, defending > the poor helpless devs. > > unfortunately there is no real community around openbsd. at least > i dont see one -- one where there are people without cvs commit. > if you don't have cvs commit, you are a nobody that's what misc@ > will teach any newcomer using iron and fire. i try to be part > of a community but the devs say you are nobody and should be glad > that you can use this stuff.
Having met some of the OpenBSD developers last week, they're really friendly welcoming people. misc@ does get a bit warped at times though. As with any online commumication medium you lose all those non-verbal signals which makes it hard to take people the right way sometimes. Yes as users we are lucky to be able to use such quality code which OpenBSD produces. I think it's a pritty hard job to be a developer, paid consultant and offer free user support to the user base. So don't be so quick to judge, without trying it yourself ;) Dan
