> A reasonable person is the one who takes into consideration others, > among other things.
Yes, take into consider others, LIKE THE AUTHOR. Who, if you'll notice the copyright notice, is the premier "other" to be taken into consideration. I see gmx.com and yet you seem to know little of the moral rights of the author? The community standards don't include "burning books", which is what removing those comments from his manual page would be equivelant to. > Yes, you can take that defying attitude, but it does > not seem very constructive in the context of a community, such as the > OpenBSD community, where people are trying to achieve something useful. The only person who did something useful, is the author of the software. He wrote it. Everyone else is just a freeloader -- including me, when I use this software. By using his software, I am not achieving anything useful in a community form. I'm just a user. So you are you. Unless I have an improvement to the software written up, I am just a user. Your "context of the community" sentence equates developers and users in a way similar to calling a tourist walking a sidewalk in a different country as "trying to achieve something useful". Oh boy, such massive added value... There is a user community, and a development community. You forget your place -- especially when you reply to gilles, who has written the other major mail-delivery related piece of software in the tree. > Bickering about silly things is not constructive at all. > The best guideline with regard to similar matters is that of AVOIDING > bike shedding issues. Listen to yourself, proud of the complex words you found in a dictionary. "context of the community". What a load of uptight bull. You, sir, forgot your place, and should walk away.
