Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:40:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Karagodov <karagodov@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Disappointed Message-ID: <20060406183024.C66136@home.arnold.se> In-Reply-To: <44352CA2.4030506@mac.com> References: <20060405200341.GD14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405200727.GA28371@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060405201500.GE14126@math.jussieu.fr> <20060405211154.GA30089@soaustin.net> <c7aff4ef0604060458u1a019e0dna740f61e53299c25@mail.gmail.com> <b84edfa10604060612s21e4ebb9w1d3465f1418cb242@mail.gmail.com> <b84edfa10604060613w36b02f3dhcda5d4fb6c3a393f@mail.gmail.com> <c7aff4ef0604060623g575bf32fh890d3471c978759b@mail.gmail.com> <20060406064023.1tlk5wezmi8o08og@webmail.1command.com> <c7aff4ef0604060703y62a4707ai4a2605b5160b7f46@mail.gmail.com> <44352CA2.4030506@mac.com>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Alexey Karagodov wrote: >> 2006/4/6, Chris H. <bsd@1command.com>: > [ ... ] >> and again. if *NIX developers can't answer user's question, they say "g= et >> out" or "it's your problem" or "try something else" or "For that matter; >> you're not required to use it at all". everytime one answer for multiple >> question "WE ARE *NIX, WE ARE GODS. YOU, GO TRY SOMETHING ELSE" > > I'm pretty sure that none of the FreeBSD developers have been so much as= =20 > beatified, much less appointed to a truly divine status. > The thing is this isnt a *NIX issue, but its visible in the *NIX world. All big systems have their primadonnas that are highly competent in what=20 they do best. Digging deep into the internals and do wonders there. But=20 the diffrence between opensource projects and other large projects is that= =20 the other large projects have tons of paid staff inbetween the primadonnas= =20 and the end users. In the opensource *NIX community we have direct access to the primadonnas. For us that cant talk with them in their language and realize that they=20 want to keep focused on code and not support isssues this is a feature. If you cant speak their language and/or get upset that they are not user=20 friendly you should go thru a middle man smoothing out the conversation.=20 There is a price to this thou. This price is absorbed in licencing costs=20 f=F6r other systems, in the free world you can choose who to pay to be your= =20 middle man. =09/Chris
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