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You should watch some talks and interviews with Theo. He is very nice and cares about his development team and his users; he's really not the cranky jerk that he's often depicted as.

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Oh, he is from time to time, but it's mostly towards people from the outside who pop in at random and tell OpenBSD folks How Things Should Be Done. I get it that some people tend to think they know what's right for any and every project and I'm sure their heart is in the right place. But at the same time I can see why this comes across as impolite to order people around like that. Dev's responses are typically proportional to BS dumped at them. But taken out of context it's easy to paint them as hostile and ego-driven.

"it's mostly towards people from the outside who pop in at random and tell OpenBSD folks How Things Should Be Done"

See also: Richard Stallman's attempt to troll the OpenBSD mailing list[0] after having been called out[1] about a misunderstanding of the OpenBSD ports tree (and its existence as an index of software that can be built or installed on OpenBSD, free or otherwise).

[0]: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119730630513821&w=2 [1]: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119725673616073&w=2

Theo is South African. He comes from a culture where you are very blunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Never_Met_a_Nice_South_A...

>He comes from a culture where you are very blunt.

No we're not. Stop talking kak.

Is the joke too subtle? Oh well.

:-) you got it

Oh please what absolute bullshit. Almost in the same vein as all Americans are stupid and know nothing of world affairs.

Haha, yeah I was thinking the same thing. SA, like most countries, is too diverse to be able to make such blanket statements.

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