From: Victor Duchovni (no email)
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 13:05:43 EDT
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:30:30AM -0700, probsd org wrote:
> Ok, and your who?
Someone who owes you nothing, and yet contributes to Postfix because
I enjoy it.
> Can you at least tell us who you
> are and what role you play in the Open Source
> Movement to tell me what I should and should not do?
You don't appreciate the social contract of a "gift". You treat gifts
the same a purchase. I don't need to be anyone in any particular movement
to point this out.
When a ton of bricks lands in your front yard, and a stranger drives by
in a bob-cat and voluntarily clears half a ton away leaving instructions
on where you too can obtain a bob-cat and how to drive one, you don't
get to "complain" if the instructions are illegible or hard to understand.
You say, thank you, and ask politely for help with the instructions. If
the stranger says, "read the instructions as best you can, especially
the part about the manual transmission, I cannot help you any more",
you don't attack him, he already solved half your problem. He owes you
no debt of politely explaining how to solve the other half.
To find someone who owes you something, hire a contractor to clear away
the second 1/2 ton of bricks. The contractor owes you a satisfactory
performance.
The distinction between a gift and a work for hire or purchase is
fundamental. If you keep expecting the behaviour for one in a situation
that is really the other, you will continually be frustrated.
> Regarding your threat about a kill file, I don't give
> a rats ass.
It is not a threat, just an observation of fact.
> to remember another Developer from OpenBSD who had a
> history of being an ass, and it came back to him. My
> rant is over. Those of you posting on behalf of
> Wietse are obviously his helpers, or are dating him.
>
Or your expectations are at odds with this community, and it might not
be the community's fault...
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