I received the following private messages about a user-friendly and easy-to-use variant of OpenBSD:
Clark, great e-mail! As you have noticed, the OpenBSD devs and even advocates tend to be quite hostile towards ideas and viewpoints that don't fit their world. I have had similar thoughts and related plans for a long, long time. Would you be interested in co-operation? I think we need to fork... Yours sincerely, ********** Clark, I've been trying talking sense to the devs and the advocates on the list so many times, I really don't feel it's worth the effort. The only effect it's ever had is that it just creates more bashing. =D OpenBSD is superb in so many ways, and I've been sick and tired of the fact that the attitude of the devs is killing 99% of the potential the OS has. The guys on the list (and I assume most of all Theo himself) just don't want to care about things like user experience. It's a crazy situation and I've been thinking about forking *so* many times -- but then again, that would mean having to support a whole new fork, following upstream development and maintaining compatibility. To be honest, I really don't know what to do about it. If I was a millionaire... ;) Yours, *************** What is OpenBSD developers's opinion about the private messages that I quoted above?
