On Wednesday 09 December 2009 5:01:05 pm Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500
>
> Jason Dixon <ja...@dixongroup.net> wrote:
> > How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall
> > help OpenBSD?
>
> It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the official
> purpose of the advocasy mailing list.
>
> So I think that announcements of ComixWall releases could go
> into the advocasy list.
> Is this a false conclusion? If not Soner Tari could go on
> with his project and post his announcements to the advocacy
> list.
>
> Anyway, since the advocascy list is dead, the two
> announcements to misc should not be censured in such a harsh
> way.

+1

> > How does abstraction of arguably the cleanest, easiest to
> > learn UNIX, help OpenBSD?
>
> It helps in promoting OpenBSD. Promoting OpenBSD will make
> OpenBSD more widely known. This will attract more possible
> developers. They will write code for OpenBSD. This will help
> OpenBSD.

+1

> > > I know I just added some additional noise, still I
> > > would be glad to see this issue settled in a
> > > non-destructive way.
> >
> > It is settled.  You're whining.
>
> If this is true, it's a pity. Then comixwall just died.
>
> I still hope this issue can be settled in a NON-DESTRUCTIVE
> way.

+1

> And yes. I AM WHINING. It bothers me when people destroy
> such a huge amount of good work just because of a stupid
> attack of bad mood.
>
> > > OpenBSD is a great OS and ComixWall enables many people
> > > to use it. I don't see any reason why the two projects
> > > should not be able to cooperate.
> >
> > Because they are not "cooperative" projects.  OpenBSD
> > doesn't need ComixWall.  OpenBSD is Free, Functional and
> > Secure(*).
> >
> > (*) And easy.
>
> Right. And the devil may care.
>
> Not helping comixwall by bearing one release announcement
> per year is not lazy, not even selfish, its just PLAIN
> FUCKING STUPID!

And I have to agree with that one too ...

Best Regards
Gonzalo Nemmi

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