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FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

Posted by chrisd on from the maybe-good-maybe-bad dept.

SlashChick writes "From a discussion on the freebsd-chat mailing list, it appears that one of the FreeBSD core developers, Matt Dillon, has been barred from committing any changes to the FreeBSD kernel. Dillon was one of the developers 'responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x the most rugged and stress-proof free operating system in existence,' and also contributed to fixing the Linux VM. Unfortunately, there has been little explanation from the FreeBSD core team about why Dillon was thrown out, leading to speculation and worries about the future of the FreeBSD kernel. Does the Slashdot community have any more insight into this situation? Would someone from the FreeBSD team care to elaborate and assuage our worries?" CD Update: Greg Lehey from the core team has infact elaborated in this comment.

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  1. Jeebus by Exiler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Does the Slashdot community have any more insight into this situation?"

    Do you really have to ask for the *BSD is dying trolls?

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  2. Re:little devil! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The fact that you think User Friendly is even remotely funny is by far the most disturbing thing posted in this article. 3

  3. Re:Another Branch? by T3kno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Screw that, hopefully he's a little more commited to his core beliefs than to sell out to Crapple. If he forks I'll follow him, if he goes to Open I'll switch. If he goes to Crapple everything goes to Gentoo.

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  4. Re:Little explanation? I think there's enough. by dinivin · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Considering that you know nothing about the specifics invovled, what makes you think you're in any position to judge what Core did? This is their call to make, and they made it. Don't like it? Tough shit!

    Dinivin

  5. Re:Free BSD (not) Dying by diamondc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What about people who want a free, stable, supported, unix-like operating system? There's a reason why RedHat is making *some* money while FreeBSD has been tossed around more than a 2 dollar whore.

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  6. Agree by miffo.swe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My main problem i have with BSD is the "rip-me-of-and-piss-on-me" license. How do the BSD license stop MS from taking code, alter it enough to almost work with the original and keep the changes secret? Under the DMCA they could even make it illegal for *BSD to reverse engineer their own code.

    Its a bit to easy to screw *BSD for me to support it. Technically its a hit but i cant sign the license, its selfdestructing in a way IMHO.

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