Attitude (was: keyboard failure)

At 9:45 PM -0500 1/25/03, Nick Holland wrote:
>timo ochmann wrote:
...
>
>Yes.
>It isn't working correctly.
>
>"a mac68k system"?
>"the keyboard"?
>
>Provide system model, keyboard manufacturer and model, complete dmesg,
>and maybe we can provide assistance.  At this point, all I can say is
>"works fine for me", which is about as useful to you as your
>description was to us so far...

I continued to be unimpressed by the attitude of experienced OpenBSDers 
toward newbies.  Make that "...toward anyone who needs help".

I'm this >< close to giving up on OpenBSD because of:

1) it's emphasis on "correctness" doesn't include usability.  IMHO, poor 
usability makes it easy to make mistakes and as such means that OpenBSD 
isn't all that correct.

2) the attitude of its wizards, from the very top all the way down, seems 
to be one of "oh boy oh boy, someone I can jump all over and insult! 
today is a great day to be me!"

This is not a personal comment on Nick, this is a general comment that 
includes Nick, Theo, and most (not quite all) of those who (could) help 
others.

I grew up on the Internet and have been on it since before Al Gore heard 
of it. And I know the RTFM attitude.  But never have I seen such a group 
of self-rightous dicks who go beyond the old RTFM attitude as I have with 
OpenBSD.

Oh yeah, and:

3) Getting it to run on a Mac68k machine is something I haven't been able 
to do (with an external drive for swap).  I've successfully installed 
Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX.  But OpenBSD?  Nope.  I've read lots of docs 
(some of them wrong) and I've got it to install, sort of.  It doesn't 
work for long, networking won't work, swap doesn't work right if at all. 
I'd ask for help, but no one is paying me to deal with rudeness and 
increasingly, I'm wondering if the payoff is worth it.

I do like the songs, though.
<http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html>


Brian
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