the OpenBSD community gladly alienates those types of users. for "us" (I speak only for myself as a decade+ user and supporter), it's a qualitative game, not quantitative.
Then please explain Linux's extreme level of notoriety despite Linus Torvalds' equally combative attitude.
Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”
by icebraining on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:40PM
(#9671363)
Linus' rants are usually (if ever?) not targeted at newcomers, but at people who know him well (and vice-versa).
Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”
by vezzy-fnord on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:51PM
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Different project structure, I think. You'll likely get told off by subsystem maintainers or even kernel janitors before that. If it gets to Linus, it must have been something unnerving.
This can be interpreted both ways, however. Where Linus will be more elusive, Theo will have no qualms with just barging in and telling you to read the source code, ivory tower be damned. Almost as if he sort of respects even newbies enough to slap some quick advice to their face.
A funny example is here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/212565
GPL + Linus rants are funnier to read.
> A reason IMHO that OpenBSD has never reached the level of notoriety of FreeBSD is Theo's childish behaviour.
A minor reason, perhaps. There are other, more serious concerns.
A reason IMHO that OpenBSD has never reached the level of notoriety of FreeBSD is Theo's childish behaviour. I can understand a 20-something insulting someone like that, but not Theo.
ps. I didn't quite understand the Linus reference, but anyway.