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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks! Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 05:57:04 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) I'm going to stop reading USENET again, I think. It does bad things for my blood pressure. Sorry, folks.. It seems like there are a lot of people out there who are just constitutionally incapable of grasping the concept of "free software" and what volunteers are really here to do. I think they expect a lot of the world in general, perhaps, and see free lunches as a constitutional right. These same people also labor under the false impression that they can buy a CD for anywhere from $18.00 (street price) to $39.95 and be entitled to eternal unpaid, unthanked technical support for that kind of money. Heck, Walnut Creek CDROM *will* do their level best to help you if you call their tech support hotline or send them email, and they won't even ask you where you bought the CD (you could be an entire school sharing a single copy, for all they know) - a better deal is pretty hard to find. But even with that, people expect more. They expect every volunteer project member to dedicate the same level of "drop everything and help me now!" support and they expect to get that support whether they've ask for it with a smile or a snarl. Anyway, there's been a lot of that kind of whining going on here lately and it doesn't do good things for my love of humanity to read it, so I'm going to pull the ejection handle now and sign off of USENET for a month or six. It's either this or start flaming people to crisps as my circuit breakers go, and I don't think that'd be very constructive. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project