Why I Left OpenBSD

In fact, I wish more people would take the attitude of derision as there are too many people who make excuses for people who are ignorant. Without criticism, you cannot improve yourself and you are encouraging ignorance.

Some background: I used OpenBSD for about 3 years as a desktop OS over a decade ago as it was the only thing that worked properly on my old Sun Sparcstation 5. I was very satisfied but out of apathy and discovering valgrind, rather than Theo's attitude, I ended up on Debian/x86. I miss the attitude.

Edit: yes I know this is a joke, but it is a common criticism so I feel like defending it :)

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

#5

Post by tater » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:02 AM UTC

Obligatory comment to remind people this is satire.

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

#6

Post by justincormack » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:02 AM UTC

Donnie Berkholtz did a great talk on "Assholes are ruining your project", with data from Gentoo video: http://redmonk.com/tv/2012/04/06/assholes-are-ruining-your-p... slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-ruining-you...

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

#7

Post by kotnik » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:03 AM UTC

"Jonestown-like atmosphere of OpenBSD."

Wow.

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

#8

Post by zaius » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:04 AM UTC

Posted June 3, 2010. Though that's not to suggest that I think things have changed since then.

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

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Post by keithpeter » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

kryten wrote: post #4

Whilst Theo is an asshat to people, he's usually right. I've been on the end of it and took it as education. In fact, I wish more people would take the attitude of derision as there are too many people who make excuses for people who are ignorant. Without criticism, you cannot improve yourself and you are encouraging ignorance. Some background: I used OpenBSD for about 3 years as a desktop OS over a decade ago as it…

Feedback is useful, but there are ways of maximising the usefulness. I get the impression that some of this 'attitude' found in Free/Open source projects could simply be crushing workload?

Edit: it appears the OA is a joke?

Re: Why I Left OpenBSD

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Post by mykhal » Tue, Jul 09, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

if you have accidentally read http://b.trollaxor.com/2011/09/dont-use-openbsd-if-you-dont-..., which is already unavailable, you know that trollaxor is probably sick.