>Dear Theo, > >I respect you as a person and I respect your work. > >This said, I can also tell you that, after a few years reading misc@, there >is still one thing that I do not understand about your "colourful" answers >to several mails. > >Not all the people who run obsd can, for various personal reasons of their >own, contribute as a coder. But they still can contribute as users, >reporting problems or making suggestions. This does not necessarily mean >they "order" you what to do or not to do, don't take it personally. They >just love to run obsd, so they try to do their best. My grandpa taught me >that when people don't tell you things it's because they just don't care >anymore. > >With their detailed answers, for instance, Stuart, Giancarlo and Ingo >showed attention to my problem as a user, analyzing things just on a >logical viewpoint. I perfectly accept their polite way of answering. > >Here nobody was making making a wishlist for obsd like "I want zfs, xfs, >ext4, pf multicore, etc.". The point is that here, often, the moment you >got used to a tool, the day after it's gone/modified. This creates >frustration in the average user, like me. > >Of course we're still a pkg_add away but, hey, isn't denying to consider >that most people will keep using that tool a contradiction? Yes, base will >be pure and safe, but at the same time it will diminish functionality, >depending more and more from packages. > >This said, this is your OS, delete everything you like! > >Just be respectful, please.
Thank you for your detailed mail. It has led me to revisit my viewpoints. We will be adding Firefox to the base distribution. It is time to stop this focus on a high quality base, and just incorporate what people want, even if it is harder then for developers to use existing methods to discern good from crap. ps. If you still want the old world, it is still there. There are many software legacy software distributions that don't change as fast. Like Linux or FreeBSD. pps. If that does not agree with you, you should feel lucky because a few projects choose to forge ahead and see where future change may get us (in the future, as in, not so much Xenix compat anymore)
