I've been hanging around the BSD world since 1995. 23 years. Haven't tried to be a leader. Just running servers and filing bugs and writing books.

In the last couple years, more than one senior OSS/BSD person has made a point of telling me some variant of "I'm becoming a senior member of the community," or they "won't be around forever and I'm next," or that I'm "becoming a BSD statesman."

Which is way weird.

I don't like it. At ALL.

Is this what it means to grow up?