Insufficiently free?

I still hold that having Richard around is a good thing.  If there were no one holding such a
hard line, the top of the curve would be far below where it is, and probably none of us would
be using free software.  When hanging a tapestry, the stress of gravity or wind is probably
hardest on the cloth right next to the grommet that's at the highest point.  Similarly, the
higher your lofty goal of freedom, the more stress you're going to endure.  Theo and OpenBSD
have set themselves just a little bit below Richard's standard, and therefore set themselves
up for a lot of stress--especially when Richard wants them to come up just that little bit
more.  :)

On another note, I've always been extremely annoyed by Theo's childish behavior, especially
toward Richard.  The cartoon of Richard implying that he doesn't bathe (in the liner notes for
one of the 3.x releases of OpenBSD) was the thing that forever put me off using OpenBSD.
There's much better-performing systems that are plenty secure enough for my uses, and their
maintainers don't insult people I respect.  I really appreciate the developers' contribution
to the state of the art (especially their efforts in making wireless drivers available) but
sadly that doesn't compensate for everything else.