2008/7/16 Nuno MagalhC#es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Eheh he's right :-) If you guys get your heads out of your asses and > actually read his words with the use of some common sense you might > get what he means. It's a balanced opinion.
It's not that it isn't a balanced opinion or that he may be right or wrong - it's that the guy was asking why they weren't following their disclosure policy and no one has provided a sufficient answer as to why they don't a) follow the policy or b) change the document. > From what i've seen so far in this list, the BSD-crowd *is* "a bunch > of masturbating monkeys" anyway, i get much more decent reasonable > answers to my problems in any Debian list, along with constructive > criticism. Here it's rtfm and chest-thumping. Coming from the GNU/Linux community I felt the same way for a while. Then I started really looking at what my expectations were versus what they should be. In the Linux world I had grown used to expecting something in particular. Despite no SLA or any other type of agreement, I expected the community to support the distribution. When I made the change to FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I brought those expectations with me. Then I realised that was both selfish and foolish. Now my expectations have changed. I expect to get an install CD and whatever swag I pay for. Beyond that, I *hope* that if I have troubles that I can approach the *BSD community and get some assistance but I realise that that should never be an expectation and that I'm equally as likely to get a "sorry, I value my time" as I am to get "you should look at the -<foo> flag" - and that either response is ok. Actually, allow me to correct the above. At the end of the day there is one other expectation I have, and that is to be totally thrashed for bringing something totally off-topic or meaningless or just plain wrong to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marco commented: *yawn* linus' opinion is as interesting as his relevance. I say: +1 kmw
