I think they've earned that right, and this attitude may be necessary to scare away the kind of developers who might (with perfectly good intentions) end up making the job of the OpenBSD developers a lot harder.
OpenBSD is amazing software. By far the best OS I've ever used in my life. If the cost of that is a bad attitude, so be it. Whatever they're doing, it's working.
> OpenBSD is amazing software. By far the best OS I've ever used in my life. If the cost of that is a bad attitude, so be it.
I like to judge a developer's attitude by reading the manpage that he or she kindly wrote for me. OpenBSD manpages are comprehensive and still concise. So the devs respect my time. I really appreciate that. (Actually, I want to throw money at them just for providing such excellent Unix documentation.)
Yes, they tend to be brusque when you mail them about some issue and obviously didn't RTFM before. They are right: You show them that you don't respect their time. Why should they be nice to you?
I think they've earned that right, and this attitude may be necessary to scare away the kind of developers who might (with perfectly good intentions) end up making the job of the OpenBSD developers a lot harder.
OpenBSD is amazing software. By far the best OS I've ever used in my life. If the cost of that is a bad attitude, so be it. Whatever they're doing, it's working.