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NetBSD Foundation Board Election Results Posted

Posted by chrisd on from the florida-stye-recount-not-necessary dept.

Dan writes "With the publishing of the final ballot of the Board Elections on September 12th, a one-year long effort to establish a more democratic structure in the NetBSD Project came to a successful end."

17 comments

  1. Comment by dago · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this is a bogus comment to increase comment count on a *BSD story featured on /. main page which received only 2 comments in a few hours.

    this isn't karma whoring as nobody will ever moderate this post.

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  2. teh futare of slahcrap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    The Future of SLASHDOT.

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  3. A good crew... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Read a lot of posts from these guys on the NetBSD boards, so they were already very involved in NetBSD already. Good to see a real election, and new blood.

    So when does Linux get a new dictator^Wleader? Oh, I forgot.. no elections. Everyone follows Linus blindly like a god. Hey, y'know, when Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' came out, I always wanted a 'hammer' armband or something for a halloween costume. Maybe Linus can get everyone to wear a 'penguin' armband.

  4. Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are they going to all the trouble of setting up all this bureaucracy, when they know it will just kill developer interest and result in a stagnant release schedule. People don't use NetBSD because its "democratic", they use it because it runs on nearly anything, and has very minimal requirements to boot. But if it just turns into another bureaucratic mess like FreeBSD, with no cutting edge features and a lack of developer vision, why will anyone bother anymore?

    The truth is, as everybody knows, what is needed in a project like this isn't committees and bureaucracy, but strong, firm leadership, and a hierarchy based on merit and willingness to obey. This is the system that has made america great, and it is responsible for most of the incidental successes of "open-source" software. But spreading power too thinly makes strong leadership impossible.

    1. Re:Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Actually, it was the previous "leadership" (of which I include myself) that never got a lot of the stuff done, that needs to get done. Things like filling out and maintaining official non-profit status so people can donate money and hardware in exchange for a tax-receipt. Stuff like this has been lagging for approximately-ever and needs people to take charge of it and follow it through. None of the administrative work interferes with development and technical direction is still decided on by the developers themselves. 501(c)3 status is, believe it or not, important to many organizations who want to donate but for whatever reason can't or won't if the recipient isn't a registered non-profit. This is just one example of the administrivia that's been lagging for years.

      H.

    2. Re:Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Arandir · · Score: 2

      Nothing killed FreeBSD. It's still ALIVE and doing very well. Don't believe anything the trolls post.

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    3. Re:Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's assuming that FreeBSD is dead. Whatever the state of their leadership, they still seem to lead the way in developing support for new or obscure hardware. (Something I'm very greatful for every time I use the agpgart device on my home system.)
      As long as the developers keep working on the OS, the wonks in the front office can do whatever they like. They aren't the measurement of wether the OS is alive or dead.

    4. Re:Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you even know what the hell you're talking about?

    5. Re:Isn't this what killed FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yea it's alive allright, at least all the FBSD addicts are using it...
      Apart from that noone really cares about it.

  5. Is this where they pick out who will be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...the pallbearers?

  6. New moto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Of course it votes NetBSD!"