On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Gary <gdri...@gmail.com> wrote: > But there's an enormous, tedious history of butthurt when it comes > to "giving back" to a BSD project. There's more than ten years of whining > about OS X. and several more about OpenBSD, OpenSSH, etc. The reality is > that these projects can get bent out of shape and demand support but > there's no recourse. >
Yes, and you don't have to read the mailing lists long to realize that some of the "butthurt" goes the other way. Some of those projects are notoriously hard to contribute to if you're not already part of the inner circle. The *BSDs OS's, in particular, are known for being hostile to outside contributors. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss