There is no way anybody can "win" from any of this!
That's the worst part of it all!
all BSD's will & are suffering!
The future is always looking back to see what it has to work with!
There is no future with out a past!
The software its self ( BSD's) is smarter them the ones making it.
Thats the point of failure (humans), the weak link in all of it !
Just having "safe by defalt" rule proves nothing!
The software is only as safe as the "minds" who "made" it
The point of failure is to think it is safe!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "OpenBSD-Misc" <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
On 8/30/06, Charles M. Hannum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has
gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often
more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this
happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be
done to attempt to fix the situation.
[snip]
Much of this early structure (CVS, web site, cabal, etc.) was copied
verbatim by other open source (this term not being in wide use yet)
projects -- even the form of the project name and the term "core". This
later became a kind of standard template for starting up an open source
project.
That's very interesting history, if true (and I don't see why it
wouldn't be)! Don't feel bad then, if you have accomplished that.
[snip]
--
At this point most readers are probably wondering whether I'm just
writing a eulogy for the NetBSD project. In some ways, I am -- it's
clear that the project, as it currently exists, has no future. It will
continue to fall further behind, and to become even less relevant. This
is a sad conclusion to a project that had such bright prospects when it
started.
I admit that I may be wrong about this, but I assume that most people
who have contributed to NetBSD, and/or continue to do so, do not desire
to see the project wallow away like this. So I will outline what I
think is the only way out:
[snip]
*cough*Most of these ideas have been in the OpenBSD culture from the
beginning*cough*
- Charles Hannum - past founder, developer, president and director of
The NetBSD Project and The NetBSD Foundation; sole proprietor of The
NetBSD Mission; proprietor of The NetBSD CD Project.
[I'm CCing this to FreeBSD and OpenBSD lists in order to share it with
the wider *BSD community, not to start a flame war. I hope that people
reading it have the tact to be respectful of their peers, and consider
how some of these issues may apply to them as well.]
Um. Wow. I think Theo wins.
-Nick
