J.C. Roberts wrote:
Please do not mistake me and my opinions for the opinions of the OpenBSD
community in general. OpenBSD users and developers actually thrive on
the conflict of differing opinions; a reasonably friendly competition to
figure out and prove both what works and what works best.
[snip]
I'm just a normal user who doesn't contribute a great deal to the
project, so there is a *HUGE* difference between me and the people who
actually have both the expertise and dedication needed to write quality
code to improve the project. -To them, I'm just another loud mouth
chatting away on misc@ rather than doing something more productive.
Kind Regards,
JCR
Point taken. I did not mean to imply you are an official spokesperson
for the project. Merely that you successfully explained the hostility
that had arisen on this thread to what seemed an innocuous original
posting by Robbert.
If I understand the Open Source development model, whilst you may not be
productive in the code writing arena, people like yourself who are
prepared to take the time to explain to us newbies where we have gone
wrong are a necessary buffer in order to allow the developers to get on
with the job of developing the project.
Cheers
-Penfold
