> I propose a new phrase to describe 'Open and Free' projects that don't > approve of OpenBSD's policies because they are 'more stringent ... than > others': > > 'They aren't free as in speech. They aren't even free as in beer. They > are cheap and easy as in prostitutes.'
I have been throwing around a phrase for a few weeks. Perhaps it should be popularized. OpenBSD is free as in air. There, pass it around. Almost all the other software out there is NOT free as in air. Instead, it is "free as in hangovers". Whatever the fuck that means... but the analogy is no less clear "free as in beer". > Society is failing to produce quality because it is acceptable, and in > many cases preferable, to be sincere rather than factual. All these > projects which don't understand OpenBSD's uncompromising policies are > suffering from sincerity syndrome. They think that they can just feel > like their projects are free and open and then say that they are. We > live in a society of bullshitters, and the bullshitters have infiltrated > open and free software. We have an uphill battle to fight because > bullshitting has become generally accepted behaviour. Most people are > bullshitters. We need to stop tolerating it in ourselves and in others. Well, you won't fix any of that, and neither really will we. We'll stick to our principles for reasons entirely dissasociated from those problems, and noone will ever really understand. Probably not even you will really ever fully understand ;)
