The OpenBSD operating system itself is pretty good, my main issue is
just that the /usr partition size can be really small in a lot of
cases.

I do largely agree with some of the legal related goals of the
project, https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

But my main issues with OpenBSD is on the mailing lists...Read on if
you'd like to read a story.

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About a month ago I submitted a diff to tech@ removing a word from the
web2 / words file.

Theo rejected it with a harsh reply and it put a pretty bad taste
in my mouth.

Yesterday I submitted a sort of issue/problem (not really a glitch) to
misc@ and got a pretty blunt reply from a random
Gmail...not from an OpenBSD member and I didn't really care.
Just deleted it and moved on.

Then a developer sent me an email with a diff to fix the issue,
but I don't have commit access. Why they sent it to me I don't know,
maybe for me to forward it but I'm not sure. I ended up replying.

It was only today that I learned about one of OpenBSD's goals
which is to not be political. Such progressive changes are
definitely not technical and now I've learned it doesn't
make any sense under their goals.

And to be clear, I am not out here to make OpenBSD some
communist far-left project.

And yes, my first diff was definitely pretty surface-level
like some replies said, looking at fortunes-o it is pretty
offensive. By that old logic I'd have to empty basically
the entire file.

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I do like OpenBSD as a project. The correctness approach
from OpenBSD really changed how I wrote code, ever so slightly.

Keep doing what you're doing. Especially the actual coding work.

_Maybe_ enforce the harrassment and bullying rule of the list a
bit more.

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