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Jordan Hubbard moves to new OpenDarwin.org

Posted by pudge on from the tis-the-work-of-satan-i-tell-ye dept.

bootc writes "Last week we heard the news that Jordan Hubbard was leaving the FreeBSD Core Team. I received an email about the new OpenDarwin.org web site and had a look around, just to find that our friend Jordan was member of the OpenDarwin Core Team!" Apple has consolidated its Open Source web site, including Darwin, under its developer site, while the Internet Software Consortium is hosting the independent OpenDarwin.org, which will develop OpenDarwin with the developer community and collaborate with Apple to merge OpenDarwin technologies into Darwin and Mac OS X.

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  1. Fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yO, i GOT YOUR APPLE fp

  2. ha by Temjin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

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  3. More info... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More info can be foundhere

    Beat my uptime!

  4. Is it just me or... by abrink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me or is this the first story with the strange, new fangled slashdot logo in the corner? I dont recall seeing it.

  5. I'm all humored out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It has been my pleasant duty over the previous few years to post a comment into every thread to try to get the much revered (5, Funny)..

    However, this news story is so devoid of content and utterly unfunny that I cannot come up with a single joke about it! God help me!

  6. Re:Interesting News by kypper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In reference to your sig, me too. We must be the only 2 in the world (Taco's just faking it)

  7. SLASHDOT WORST FICTION EVER COMPETITION! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Mandi's voluptuous curves emphasised the singlemindedness of a Reaganite generation. Her wholesome rump, which would do a farmer proud in even the most competitive Texan meat markets, once again interrupted my field of vision to the birds perching nonchalantly on the roof of the opposite building. Two years, three months, four days and one hour into my job at dotcomrevolution.com, and the word on the seventh floor was that the VC's were about to cut off our air supply. These gulls were my only break from the monotony of BSD server administration, and Mandi had to be punished for her countless intrusive hours at the photocopier.

    "Your ass is blocking my view," I mumbled.

    "What did you say?" she roared. Well, it was more an angry squeak than a roar. I just had to block out the irritating, high-pitched whine that characterised all Mandi's replies, and my instincts caused my right hand to jump onto the air conditioning knob for the server room, turning it up to full blast.

    "You -- that again -- I'll -- the manager!" she continued, her voice drowned out by the healthy whir of the most expensive fans in Christendom. I looked at her and grinned. "I can't think -- that -- noise! Turn -- off now!" She was trying to keep her cool (an act made all the easier by the now exceptional air conditioning), but even a blind man could have felt the heat from her cheeks as they began to turn a rosy red with rage.

    "I'm afraid I can't do that, Mandy," I responded. I guess she looked like more of a Dave than a Mandy, her smooth but noticeably dark follicles of facial hair contrasting with her pasty skin under the lifeless fluorescence of office lighting, but she would not have understood the reference anyway.

    With that, I turned back to my console and resumed my xtank session. But what was this? Out of the corner of my eye, I saw water begin to drip out of the corner of Mandy's eye, while she was sitting in my assistant's chair. (Well, I called it the assistant's chair, I had not actually had an assistant since late 1999, when I selected him to be the scapegoat for my rather poor backup schedule.)

    "Why must you always make fun of me? I'm just trying to do my job," she blubbed. Sitting close to me now, not even $10,000 of Taiwanese ventilation could block out her piercing tone. "Ever since I got this job the guys here have made fun of me for my shape, why can't they just respect me for who I am?"

    A change of heart that would have made Montgomery Burns proud caused me to stand up and walk over to the wreck. I wanted to explain this rationally to her, in terms of the mating habits of the human male, and the desire for a woman fit for childbearing and housework, but there was no time for that (it was ten minutes to five). "I'm sorry," I uttered, and rested my hand on Mandy's shoulder, fearing a lawsuit.

    Mandy stood up, and without hesitation put her arms round me, whispering, "Thank you." I reciprocated, grateful for a secure office lacking in inside windows. Instead of letting go, she squeezed me harder, and her tears began to stain the shoulder of my designer shirt. I motioned to back away, and in doing so my hand slipped downwards, brushing against her behind.

    "I'm not so repulsive, am I?" she questioned.

    I was racking my brain for a diplomatic response. "I guess there are advantages to looking at you over the gulls and the hypnotising router LEDs," I confessed. "And unlike with the routers, I'm not called out when you break down. And you don't leave a mess on the roof..."

    "That's the nicest thing anyone's ever told me," she interrupted. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

    (I'm a geek. Do you have a girlfriend? Exactly.)

    "I'm, um, er.. I'm playing the field," was my closest attempt at honesty without offending my manhood. "I dont like to deprive others of my attention by focussing too much on one person."

    "That's a shame," she said, and then her tone of voice changed completely. "Because I was so hoping to score before next week's lay-off."

    "NEXT WEEK?" There was no chance that I would be able to return my home-brewed Beowulf cluster of 'borrowed' workstations so soon, and I had expected at least two week's warning from management. "Oh, and I know about your Beowulf cluster," she whispered, "but I'm sure I can use my special relationship with your boss to make it easier for you to return the equipment. The question is, what can you do for me?"

    to be continued

  8. Re:Interesting News by puffinbirdy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    having good knowledge of a girlfriend is not good enough ... unless ... :O)

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  9. Re:Interesting News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    helicopter crash
    dead flesh stinking charred flesh
    freebsd death

  10. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please send me your address. I want to poop on you.

  11. *BSD has died by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is with great sadness that I bring you this news: *BSD is dead.

    It was at 4:25am on the morning of April 15th 2002 that, after many failed attempts to resuscitate the dying OS, *BSD finally passed away. While *BSD has been in it's death throes for many months now and it's death has been foreseen for many years, this is still a very sad moment, a great loss for OS dilettante dabblers and *BSD lovers the world over. Though *BSD has passed away, it will surely be fondly remembered for years to come by users, developers, and trolls alike. Even if you didn't enjoy using *BSD, there's no denying it's contributions to popular OS culture. Truly a Berkeley icon. It will be missed :(

    1. Re:*BSD has died by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Did you hear this on the radio? I thought I heard this on the radio this morning.

  12. FUCK!! Crapplepoop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FUCK! George Washington is back, and he's sucking dicks like never before! Only $20 a BJ!!!! FUCK! $20!!!!!!!! .

    Get on this deal before it's gone! Shit! FUCK! OMG! ASSCUNT!

  13. Poopnuggets. Stinkbutt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Crapplenuts. Stinkbutt Charlie? No! Is there a poopnugget in your eye? Yes! Stink-eye! Roger, roger. Eating my ass out now, ja?

    Crapplestink. Stinkpussy. YOU ARE A BEHEMOTH! CRAPPLEPOOP!

  14. Hard Times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is common knowledge that *BSD is a failure, but why? Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all knw *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting glom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

    1. Re:Hard Times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      AAAAHHH-HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Close your tags correctly, fucktard.

      The command line is for pussies. Get out of the 1980s and move on to Windows XP, the best OS out today.

  15. Bleh, more evolutionary propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Evolutionists (and, by extension, Darwin) have much to answer for.

    For starters, I'd like to see what they have to say about this.

  16. Re:Interesting News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haiku

    hlicopter crash
    dead flsh stinkingcharred flesh
    freebsd death

  17. timeline... by Ratso+Baggins · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We begin where
    • Jordan is perhaps "the" core guy in FreeBSD

    • Jordan goes to work for Apple

      Jordan resigns from FreeBSD-core citing "no time" as one of the reasons.

      Jordan signs on for Darwin-core

    The result is a core member of a completely free BSD (free enough for apple to use) has been manipulated into only releasing code for the Apple Patent Licence.

    How is this good for Jordan, the wider community or Apple for that matter, as this behaviour emulates MS at it's most "compettitive"?

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    "we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.

  18. Re:Interesting News by connorbd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You are demonstrably a troll, and here's why:

    -Apple's internal stuff hadn't lost credibility; we were going crazy waiting for Copland (which died of a very painful case of runaway second-system effect).
    -Rhapsody did ship, as OS X Server. The only problem was that it was realized during the development process that not giving developers an easy way to convert Classic apps to OS X was Not A Good Idea, and the consumer release had to be delayed to create Carbon. Somewhere in there Gil Amelio got bounced and Steve Jobs reclaimed full control.
    -Tru64 Unix is Mach-based as well. More to the point, Solaris is Unix-branded, and though Linux isn't Dennis Ritchie considers it part of the family. By that standard, if it quacks like a duck...
    -The mention of Linux userfriendliness is, to put it charitably, anachronistic in the context you're talking about.

    Your understanding of history is faulty, your understanding of the present is not much better, and the only intelligent thing in your entire post is describing Microsoft's sales tactics as "slamming".

    (Well, that and I find the term Macastrati a hysterically funny term for people who have come over to the Mac side because of Eunuchs^h^h^h^h^h^h^hUnix, though I'll leave it up to them of the world if they wish to accept it...)

    /Brian

  19. Hard Times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We all know that *BSD is a failure, but why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  20. Re:Here's my lame attempt at humour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yes, these are hard times for *BSD. Why did *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

  21. Re:More OS X flamebait by Bitter+Old+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Who the hell modded this as +5 insightful? This is flamebait, nothing more.
    Of course it is. Read my post history. I am a troll, and you have been trolled.
    Child. My Mac friend is currently jealous of my positive bank balance, that's for sure.
    If you'd like better pay than what Burger King can provide, Radio Shack is always hiring.
    Most advanced? Wake up and find out what X can do, and Aqua can't. Did you know you can get Windows XP themes for Aqua? No? It requires a lot of hacking but it works. You're assuming everybody thinks in exactly the same way, a classic Apple-fan mistake.
    I'm assuming by Aqua you mean Quartz, since Aqua is just a theme running on top of Quartz. What X can do and Quartz can't? You mean like a PDF-based windowing system, vectorized graphics, alpha channels, hardware color correction, full resolution independence (coming soon), and seamless multiple monitor support? And all of that without ANY extra effort on the part of the user getting things working? Sure X has networking, which is pretty much the sum of its advantages over Quartz, but I'd be surprised if 10% of OS X users cared.
    Er, since when has ANY Linux developer wanted to emulate MICROSOFT?!?! Some Linux software looks like Windows (kde for instance), but that's mainly out of necessity - making it easy for people to switch.
    Since when has any Linux developer wanted to emulate Microsoft? Stop eating glue. KDE, GNOME, Wine & WineX, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Codeweavers, Lindows, Samba, shall I continue? The Linux movement would be a lot better off if its hippies would try to emulate NeXT or Be instead. Linux on the desktop is essentially doomed to the status of third-rate Windows clone, which makes it approximately an eighth-rate Apple clone.
    Wake up and smell the roses - Mandrake (not an obscure distro) will auto detect almost anything. Oh yeah, and you know WHY OS X is so good at hardware autodetection? Because Apple users have a choice of all of 3 different pieces of hardware. It's easy to do hardware integration when you control the hardware.
    If by 3 pieces of hardware you mean thousands, the majority by third-party vendors and not Apple, then I will agree with you. I just bought a scanner the other day. You know how much effort it took to install? I don't want to tell you, because it will probably make you start to cry. Let's just say I didn't have to recompile my kernel or download alpha drivers or edit any config files or upgrade my distro or go searching the net for obscure packages or sorting out ridiculous library dependencies or making sure there were no IRQ, DMA, or I/O conflicts.
    If that's the case, why did Apple junk their own in house MacOS9 (which blew chunks, it really did) and replaced it with an open core?
    I don't know. Why did they? Ever notice that all the good stuff in OS X is still and will always be proprietary? It's funny, because in five years or so, Linux might actually be able to pull off a semi-decent Quartz clone - although they will instead clone Windows' clone of Quartz, because that's just the way the OSS hippies are - they can't copy anyone but Microsoft because they've got a bit of a "rivalry" going on (in their heads anyway). Here's how I see it happening:

    2000: Apple debuts Quartz.
    2000: Linux community really, really wishes it had Quartz. "Open-source it, Apple! Us wanty! Gimme gimme!"
    2001: Apple declines to open-source Quartz.
    2001: Linux community mad at Apple. "Stupid Apple, Quartz is slow and inflexible anyway! Proprietary software, bleh! We never needed it, X11 is better! Long live X11!"
    2003: Microsoft debuts Longhorn with Quartz ripoff graphics subsystem.
    2003: Linux community says, "shit, we're behind AGAIN! We need what M$ has got, and we need it now!"
    2006: Linux community delivers 1.0 of Longhorn GUI ripoff, and it's incorporated into XFree86 5.0 via yet another archaic and cryptic X extension.
    2006: Richard Stallman arrested for sodomizing a lamb.
    2007: Linux achieves 0.3% desktop market share, up from 0.2% three years ago.

    Wank.

  22. That FAG!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I fucking KNEW IT! Unbelievable shit!!! Fucking traitor shithead!! Jordan can go to hell...

  23. You need a disclaimer on stuff like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It was so funny I almost had a heart attack.

  24. Re:More OS X flamebait by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Best. Troll. Ever.

    You're on my friends-list.

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  25. FUCK OFF *bsd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNU/HURD will rule the PLANET!!!

  26. Re:Speaking of 'Knowledge of Unix and a Girlfriend by Van+Halen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is completely offtopic, moderate as such. I always liked got a light?

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