tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17958827.post5078259255672142314..comments2024-02-05T15:01:20.672+08:00Comments on Archimedes' Lever: I thought OSS was supposed to break down walls, not build them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12760673999356987827noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17958827.post-69687612481744458472010-02-04T17:14:46.179+08:002010-02-04T17:14:46.179+08:00Well, I think that the OpenBSD camp was unique in ...Well, I think that the OpenBSD camp was unique in their interpretation. Given that it <em>is</em> their lists and so on, that's their call; nobody is disagreeing with that, as far as it goes.<br /><br />But I (and I gather other people) <em>do</em> have serious issues with the way this makes the OpenBSD camp <em>look</em> and <em>function</em> with respect to outsiders/newcomers. The fact that they seem singularly uninterested in this, to the point where "go away, don't bother us" messages like the earlier comment are too often posted anonymously, just pours petrol on a fire that was already burning quite nicely, thank you. What I was saying in the original post — and inviting others to do — is to "just leave you alone." You've announced your firm intention to be completely irrelevant to anybody outside your boys'-cult clique, and the rest of the world does in fact have better things to do than massage your egos.<br /><br />I just got off the phone with one of my recent clients who's been running OpenBSD on 5 servers (without technical issues). He'd been told by his internal "tech guy" about the flame war that's been going on, and the CEO has now directed that all current OpenBSD installations be moved to "any other technically similar, suitable system, immediately." Nobody in the real world has time to play in your sandbox, and OpenBSD, as a movement, will soon be deader than BSD/OS.<br /><br />Good riddance.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760673999356987827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17958827.post-81980423497112784782010-02-04T16:37:21.779+08:002010-02-04T16:37:21.779+08:00Many people misunderstood the objections from the ...Many people misunderstood the objections from the OpenBSD camp. In this (and the ComixWall) situations, the objection was purely using our lists to advertise their project. That is inappropriate. You want to make a "more user friendly" distribution? Go for it. But spamming our mailing lists? Please don't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com