thus Marc Espie spake:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:15:09PM -0700, Jon R H wrote:
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!
Nope. I don't see OpenBSD suffering from this, not for real.
i back this :)
The BSDs have always been about the code, not the organization.
yes, and that's why (IMHO) NetBSD has really a problem; since a few days
there's 'discussion' about whether or not use or accept blobs.
i fully comply to OpenBSDs philosophy here. it's not only a technical
thing, it's about (the projects) politics, metaphysics and more.
it's one of the most important issues that ever came up in the recent
months on NetBSD MLs, and it's being ignored.
as a long year user of the three 'major' BSDs myself, i am now realizing
(especially after Charles M. Hannums post) that there will be only two
BSDs left in our portfolio from the week to come. that means switching a
few dozen (!) servers at customers as well as our development of
appliances. fortunately, our internal servers were switched some time
ago to one of the two remaining BSDs, or commercial UNIX (non-x86/amd64).
As long as there are people writing good code with a reasonable licence,
who cares where they live ?
Certainly not I.
neither do i.
two last sentences: every OS (or project building, maintaining, running
an open source OS) deserves it's developers' politics. if NetBSD suffers
that much from it's developers that it 'dies', well, then it be so.
i appreciate the OpenBSDs community efforts in building and maintaining
a *real* open source OS very much. thank you!
cheers,
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Frankie says: Relax
