On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:29:50PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> For a while it was amazing watching someone completely misunderstand
> the Zeitgeist of the circumstances ---- this is open source, you get
> all the pieces from people who largely care, but you also get all
> the pieces so that you can DECIDE to care and FIX them when you find
> problems and participate in a commonwealth of shared uplift.
>
> But no. You just bitch about it. You do no self learning. You are
> simply demanding someone solve your problem because you are noisy. Yes
> self-learning is hard. That's precisely what all of us did to be able
> to maintain the software this far. Now it is in your ballcourt. If you
> don't do so, that speaks much more to your character than to our
> character.
>
> Watching this isn't amazing anymore. It is seriously sad.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that if you were walking down the
> sidewalk and found a poop in your way, you'd pull out your phone and
> mail misc about it. You don't know how to self-help.
>
> Rupert - you got all the pieces, source code and all. Without
> warrantees, from volunteers. Make them work, or use something else. In
> particular, I have to advice you on a bigger picture component: you need
> to grow up.
Theo's right. To quote a piece of license text governining most of
the code:
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
* WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS.
*I* only care about this (a bit) because I might run into this problem
myself some day. I decided already that trying to reproduce this is
likely much more effective than interacting with Rupert. But that will
take some time.
-Otto
