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Hubbard Asks FreeBSD Hackers To Rename EDOOFUS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-fair-enough dept.

MobyTurbo writes "Jordan K. Hubbard, on instruction from Apple, had to inform the freebsd-hackers list that the error, pointed to by the error message number named EDOOFUS, must be changed. Several interesting suggestions have been made in the resulting thread."

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  1. compromise by elmegil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    EDFS seems like it's obscure enough to not offend, but true enough to the original sentiment to fly for those "in the know".

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  2. This seems typical by Sentry21 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't mean to troll - some of my best friends are FreeBSD users - but somehow, this sort of thing doesn't surprise me. In every circumstance I've ever tried (and believe me, I've tried), I've found FreeBSD coders to be somewhat... elitest. The assumption that anyone who makes a mistake is a 'doofus' doens't surprise me much at all. Oddly enough, though, this is exactly the sort of childishness that many lead FreeBSD team members accuse Linux of.

    Why not just change it? Why make it into an issue? Is this some kind of 'fight the man' issue? You'd think they'd have gotten an ego boost from Apple using their code - repeatedly - and by trying to work *with* the community instead of just taking and leaving.

    I tried FreeBSD because I thought it would be neat, and it was, until I had to ask someone for help. Then I went back to Linux. Unfortunately, they don't seem to realize that people are people too. Help is more useful than insults.

    --Dan

  3. Re:Article in case of slashdotting by geekoid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    that gives me an Idea!

    national.. no, GLOBAL slashdot Google day.
    Once a year, at noon GMT aeverybody does a search on google. I bet we might have such n effect, that it might take as long as 3 seconds to return reslts!

    or..aa...not.

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  4. Apple: Deal with it by version5 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm of the opinion that Apple should suck it up and accept the current state of affairs. There's no technical reason to change it. Anyone with the skills to go through Apple's source is likely to be well aware of the FreeBSD connection, and even if they do get offended, they wouldn't blame Apple.

    Apple can profit from the labors of the FreeBSD folks, that's cool, I'm in favor of that, but I draw the line when Apple decides it wants to interfere with the FreeBSD culture.

    I also find it slighly hypocritical that Apple wants to change a little-known and hardly-used identifier after publically code-naming one of their projects "Butthead Astronomer" in honor of Carl Sagan. Also, as someone on the newsgroup mentioned: The Boolean variable "STUPID" [in Apple Pascal I] --documented as STUdent Programmer ID-- was set TRUE by default, as shipped by Apple Computer.

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  5. In 5.1 code? by sammy.lost-angel.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this in the 5? I did not see anything in 4.8. If so, that will shed some light on the next version of OS X... er Darwin.