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FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

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. I think... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just got first post... on my own story. :P

    --SlashChick

  2. What Slashdot DOESNT want you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why wont Slashdot post this?

    Sorry guys, but hiding the truth will not make it any less true.

    Study: Linux' Security Problems Outstrip Microsoft's

    Troll 206 of 208 from the annals of the Troll Library .

    1. Re:What Slashdot DOESNT want you know by KramerMe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, it makes one wonder. Maybe it hurts all those *nix nerd's pride?

    2. Re:What Slashdot DOESNT want you know by ralphclark · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Theres no document at that URL. You made it up! LOL!

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

    FP BITCH!

  4. FIRST POST by Omicron32 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Simply the best!

  5. Second Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boom - i got second place - me hoping

    pretty plz

  6. In SOVIET RUSSIA .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You count yourself lucky if you only get thrown out.

    1. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And in America, we just go out to the SUV, take a gun from the GunRack, load it up, adn start hunting...

  7. Re:Oh great... SlashTroll Fest! by Dave_B93 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You forgot one..

    11. Doesn't this guy have the same name as Matt Dillon the actor?

  8. get some perspective, please. by twitter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Would you be one of those folks who describe free software as "communism"? That's rich. To compare free software (people who want to share their software with you so that you can modify it to suit your needs and share in turn) with the Communist Party of the USSR (people who enforced non freedom of speech by jail and death) is silly at best. I get tired of such stupid comparisons. Get it straight: sharing information is not unAmerican, it violates no one's rights and it helps everyone but those who would perpetually sell you the equivalent that does not work as well.

    This is not about the users and they don't owe you anything. You don't have to use free software, you don't have to use freeBSD and the authors have no power over you at all. The code lives on, despite the folly of those who wrote it. Take it for what it's worth, contribute if you will.

    --

    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  9. Re:the reason by DuBois · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? The police have been wrong about possession of pornography before, and will be again. Pornography planted on/in a person's house isn't impossible.

    And besides, mere posession of any kind of *whatever* should never be construed as a crime. Crimes are actions that have victims. Possession of a non-human *anything* doesn't make "it" a victim.

    The current inhuman view that possession of drugs, pornography, "weapons of mass destruction," etc. is criminal and deserves the death sentence is in and of itself criminally inhuman.

    And if you think "death sentence" is exaggeration in that last sentence, consider what happens when a person loses his entire reason for living by being put in prison, excluded from contributing to FreeBSD, or whatever other consequences flow from being *accused* of possession of what some government flunky doesn't like.

    --
    The IPCC has purposely engineered a massive scientific fraud.
  10. you forgot one. by twitter · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    11. Slashdot is useless and the moderation system is broken.

    Oh wait, that troll was the point of your post.

    Please don't mod yourself up. I'd like to see something useful and learn a little more about freeBSD.

    --

    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  11. Re:It's not a devil by CConkle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Regarding your sig--there is not, necessarily, a client behind every sleazy lawyer.

    (I have been, at various times, a paid employee of a very good law firm, and wish to remind everybody that there _are_ good lawyers.)

    But back to the topic. By far the sleaziest lawyers are the great class-action filers, who organize so-called "class action" lawsuits solely for their own enrichment. Such practices can be hugely lucrative. One of my jobs as a legal investigator was to review the filings of the so-called "Citizens for Better Business Practices", incorporated by a disbarred attorney convicted of several counts of fraud (not to mention pimping and pandering... it's all in the State Bar Court files). These wonderful citizens filed no less than thirty-four seperate lawsuits, with a total of well over 130 defendants, on extremely poor grounds (a technicality of advertisement law). Resisting such a claim is expensive--and said Citizens accompanied each complaint with a letter "offering" to settle, for several thousand dollars.

    So no, that _is_ in fact a devil, not a daemon.

  12. Re:All tied up with a red rubber ball? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why was this moderated as a troll? It's not very funny, mind you (it's not FreeBDSM), but it's certainly not a troll. It was (an ill-devised) pun on Bondage and Discipline, Sadomasochism (the abbreviation of which is BDSM). I don't know if weeboo0104 was aware that the letters were in the wrong order for his pun to zing, but moderating him down for a lame joke -- especially as a troll -- is a bit much...

  13. we ARE the development community. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah, you guys suck.

  14. Re:dillon leaves the FreeBSD project by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking dick.

  15. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh wait.. I got nothing.