NetBSD Foundation Board Election Results Posted

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."

Comments

Isn't this what killed FreeBSD?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.