On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Brad Tilley wrote: > > Maybe it's worth to see this presentation: > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/brhard2007/ > > I definitely agree with OpenBSD's uncompromising stance on this. I'll > take quality code from sensible devs over binary blobs any day. I > admire folks who stand-up for what is right. That's one reason I > choose OpenBSD over other free operating systems. > > At the same time, I unfortunately have to help Joe User. Occasionally > I'm being paid to help Joe User. So I have to suffer fools when that > is the case ;) and I'm a nice guy who likes to accommodate, but > attempt to educate at the same time. RTFM does not work on most Joe > Users and they often go away from that sort of conversation thinking > OpenBSD is for jerks (although it is not) and I do not wish to add to > that misconception. So, I was hoping to come-up with some informal > rules to help bridge the gap between us and them. > > Thanks for all the advice. I'll keep suffering fools for now.
Seriously, I think it'll make your life a lot easier if you instruct the Joe User to buy hardware 100% supported by OpenBSD than to trying to support these black boxes sold anywhere. OpenBSD for a long time was doing a HUGE job trying to convince manufacturers how bad is for everyone to have hardware with closed documentation. Don't support them. Teers, -- Daniel Bolgheroni FEI - Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial http://www.dbolgheroni.eng.br/mykey ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) against HTML e-mail X / \
