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Jordan Hubbard Resigns from FreeBSD Core

Posted by timothy on from the well-deserved dept.

SteelX was one of many readers to cite this story in the Daily Daemon News which reports that "Jordan Hubbard is resigning from the FreeBSD core. Jordan is a founding member of the FreeBSD project." Note: According to this email, Hubbard is definitely not quitting FreeBSD; he's just changing the nature of his involvement with it.

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  1. i want to meet the original BSD Is Dying troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has to be the most long-lasting troll (that still receives a hefty number of responses) of all time. The sheer cunning and craftmanship that has gone into the piece of work is clearly the product of an unsung genius.

    1. Re:i want to meet the original BSD Is Dying troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      his name is linux torvalds, and no he isn't an unsung genius. :)

  2. Haiku for *BSD by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is dying, BSD
    Ugly Troll screams into night
    Nobody listens

  3. Limerick for *BSD by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Funny

    There once was a troll from slashdot
    To hear him, you'd think him a crackpot
    He kept screaming "BSD IS DYING!"
    With false statistics, exaggeration, and lying
    In truth, his rants were less pleasant than crotch-rot

  4. Haiku for Mod Bombing by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you love it, when someone comes along and mod bombs 4 of your comments all at once?

    With overrated, no less. Cheap shot. I think I'll write another haiku about it.

    Crack smoke wafts through air
    Humorless moderator
    Why do you hate me?

  5. Just as I suspected by ahde · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's probably gone over to work with those commie satanists

  6. Re:Before the posts get out of hand... by toddhisattva · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. What is the "core team"?
    2. How long has JKH been on the core?
    3. Where does JKH currently work?
    4. Will JKH be replaced? Where on the net can you find procedures detailing this process?
    5. Do some research. How many people have been removed from the core? How many people have resigned from the core? What happens when a person quits the core team?

    But what does any of that have to do with a rhetorical request to

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of Jordan Hubbards

  7. He's resigning - or is he? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously what will happen now is that Jordan Hubbard will purchase a fleet of ships, give himself the rank of commodore and set up a mysterious 'BSD Organization' sailing around the globe.

    --
    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com