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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!in2.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks! Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:01:33 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4q988t$16n@hops.entertain.com> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.144.250.82 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> says: > >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 There is no shortage of assholes in the world. Stick with us. I appreciate your (and others) help. I LOVE FreeBSD. You are morally obligated to flame ingrates: 'Ignorance is no excuse for bad manners'!