On 10/28/06, Breen Ouellette wrote:
The shame enters the picture when you place expectations for additional output from the people giving freely. I see people griping all the time for this or that feature, or support for this or that hardware. I see this from people who contribute nothing and never will.
I see what you're saying. On the other hand, I'm not sure the shame is less justified when people who do contribute place expectations for additional output from the people giving freely. In fact, whether or not such a person donates seems totally irrelevant to their placement of unjustified expectations.
People complain that certain hardware is not supported very well, but have they ever written even one email to the vendor demanding open documentation? These people should be ashamed, but of course they never will.
These people should be ashamed (if indeed it is ever true to say that someone *should* experience some emotion...which it is not) because they fail to exercise their own autonomy, instead begging others who they see as being in positions of authority to magically fix the situation. This has nothing to do with loyalty or duty to the OpenBSD project, monetary or otherwise. -Eliah
