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MicroBSD Is No More

Posted by michael on from the microbsd-is-dying dept.

TrumpetPower! writes "Recently there's been quite a row in the OpenBSD community over copyright infringement by the OpenBSD spinoff, MicroBSD. Many parts of MicroBSD would seem to be a wholesale search-n-replace of the two names...including copyright notices. As a result, MicroBSD has shut down. It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices."

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  1. /. Strikes Again! by s1r_m1xalot · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running....

    We'll see about that michael... we'll just see about that.

    Definitely a just punishment in this case, though.

  2. Hmmm by cca93014 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices.
    It's worth noting that most sites are still up and running at the point the story is submitted. After that, however, they are fucked.

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    Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting

  3. An Unholy alliance by TheIronDuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe MicroBSD can get help from Microsoft in the patent fight.

  4. Of course by arvindn · · Score: 1, Funny
    It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices.

    It won't be once we're done slashdotting it ;^)

  5. *ahem* by Atzanteol · · Score: 4, Funny

    BSD is dead!

    Appologies. :-)

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  6. Got me thinking.... by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, when you steal something that is free to begin with, you have a problem.

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    Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
  7. Sad news ... MicroBSD dead at 55 by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Operating System MicroBSD was found dead in its Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its work, there's no denying its contributions to tech culture. Truly an American icon.

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    The World's Worst Webcomic!
  8. Re:Message from MicroBSD.net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    and all person(s) with MicroBSD installed, Please remove the code

    I love the "person(s)" part. It implies that he is not sure if there is more than one person with it actually installed.

  9. Re:Discussion by AnonymousCowheart · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Discussion continues on IRC: irc.microbsd.net" and you do %nslookup irc.microbsd.com see your problem?

  10. Re:best sample of search and replace... by mdb31 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This reminds me of the manual for the Commodore VIC20, where the body text had been localized, but the screenshots were still all in the original English. Especially in the 'introduction to BASIC' section, this had some interesting effects:

    PRINT "REGENBOOG"
    RAINBOW

    Very impressive level of machine translation going on there for a box with just a few kilobytes of RAM...

  11. MicroBSD is Dead! Oh wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Netcraft said so, so it must be true!

  12. Re:after reading the various links... by someonehasmyname · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uhh.. It looks as if they did a search for "OpenBSD" and replaced it with "MicroBSD." Quoting one of the links:

    Around line 30, it says this:
    You are STRONGLY urged to use ssh instead of telnet, rlogin, or rsh! ssh is
    included in all MicroBSD systems. The implementation is OpenSSH, which we are
    the developers of.

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    Common sense is not so common.
  13. Outback Dingo by Keitarou · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be wondering about the leader of MicroBSD, Outback Dingo, and his life story. So let me pour some light on the subject.
    I had the questionable honor of working with Outback Dingo, and I did it for five years, when we both worked in the now-defunct Calamada Industries. It was horrible at first, but I managed to develop survival techniques that helped me to avoid him and his "work noises".

    Yes, every day he was coming to the office and claiming he got work to do, and then he entered his room, put some George Michael music and started making noises. I don't even want to contemplate on what he was doing there.

    After around 6 hours he would come out, all sweaty and dripping, and say: "Well, I believe I can call it a day". A real outback dog or what?