i don't understand why is such a simple problem turning into drama On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > On 04/06/12 07:35, Dan Shechter wrote: >> Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? >> >> Best regards, >> Dan > > First of all, OpenBSD is completely free software. B we can not, nor do > we want to stop anyone from making their own "project" (or product) > based on OpenBSD. B That doesn't mean we always like it. > > The problem comes in when people create things that are no longer > OpenBSD, then the users come to our lists and developers expecting help. > B Or develop an opinion of OpenBSD based on these non-OpenBSD projects. > This is often due to lack of maintenance on the part of those "projects" > -- they put something together because they feel they need it, they > think, "this is pretty cool", set up a website, make a logo, and ta-da, > a project is born...and often, that's how it stays. > > We also don't like misinformation...for example, this from another part > of the thread: > >> can't install in the first place if your only bootable media can be >> usb sticks. the alternative to downloading premade images is making >> them in qemu, which is more work for little gain > > That's ONE alternative. B Roughly equivalent to turning right by turning > left three times (reverse for Drive-on-Left countries). B You can take > your USB stick and an OpenBSD CD to any same-platform computer in the > world that can boot from CD and has a USB port and build an install > device there using standard processes...and you know what you have and > how you got it.
that's outside the conditions. i am talking about a real world situation where i had ONE COMPUTER and it did not have a cd drive that's it. there's no other way to look at it
