Re: Again?: Mouse in console

[eric <eric-list-openbsd-misc@catastrophe.net>]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:43:19 +0100, Mark Farquaad proclaimed...

> Or can you explain to me what the harm of a serious
> and well ment brainstorming process amoung those who 
> voluntarily participate here of their own free will, about an aspect 
> of OpenBSD is or could be? 

Why don't you send some patches to the man pages, HTML documentation pages,
and see if they get accepted? That way, instead of wasting our time, and
yours, you could provide some useful content.

> Even if Theo was right and I was a "troll", which is not the case,
> even then I can't see how talking about and a discussion about
> the documentation of OpenBSD is per se harmful for OpenBSD, 
> even if said discussion was alledgedly started by a "troll".

If it talks like a troll, and smells like a troll, it is a troll.

> "Supposing" something might be useful, even if well founded
> by fact, does not cut it with Theo and the majority of devs here.
> What matters here are only two things:
> 1.) You must prove your will to adopt to do everything the
> way it has always been done with OpenBSD, no matter if
> it's about source code, FAQ or any other already existing or 
> non-existing part related to OpenBSD.

There is a philosophy of coding and documentation within the OpenBSD
development community. This, unlike Linux, makes things stay tight and clean
and not have man pages that say "this page is deprecated since 1995."

> Such as a well organized, up-to-date, centralized and complete
> documentation?

Have you looked at the OpenBSD documentation ever in your life?

Maybe try:

<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi>

You should go use Linux or Windows, it might suit you better.