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New NetBSD Core Team Announced
Dan writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks, on behalf of the Board of Directors, The NetBSD Foundation, announces the appointment of a new NetBSD core team. He says that after a long period of discussion and debate, they have decided to keep the core team at the same size as the original (5 members), with what they believe is a good balance of knowledge, skill, inspiration and enthusiasm."
FP!! Damn, I'm a loser!!
I couldn't help but notice, that while acknowledging Itojun as the most active developer in NetBSD, they also dropped him from core.
... but this is my first suspicion.
Itojun is a long-standing OpenBSD developer (esp. KAME related stuff) and a brave, brave sole for navigating the NetBSD/OpenBSD political waters for the time he has been serving on NetBSD core. There is still a huge amount of hostility between these two camps. I hope he wasn't axed from NetBSD core for petty reasons
Can anybody refute this theory? Or has childishness again won the day BSD-land?
Silly /dork luser.
That is a link to the VA Research staff.
You know...the group who chased after Linux as VA Linux.
Both groups are dead these days.
Mod parent up as insightful. I'm too lazy to read the whole thing, so it wasn't interesting; it surely wasn't funny. Nor is it offtopic and, not having been rated yet, it is neither underrated nor overrated. And it's not trolling, it's metatrolling... besides, with that much text, there has to be /something/ insightful in there.
I've had this sig for three days.
As a *BSD user, I must say I'm depressed.
1st I miss out on hertosexual sex.
Now I find out I'm missing out on gay(lesbian) sex.
Oh woe is me! Guess it is back to my Hitachi Magic wand and sybain. (hint:not the Venus)
Nope, its definitely the NetBSD core team.
You appear to be female. I'm male, a *BSD user, and I'm lonely. Can I meet you? Kthx.
I swear if I ever win the lotto I'm gonna give a huge chunk of cash to the Free/NetBSD foundations just to piss off you pimply-faced juvenile delinquent fucktards from /.
GAFL already
1) Satan - we need a powerful leader
2) The Grim Reaper - Actually joined years ago
3) Hitler - Knows what to do with corpses
4) Anyone from the cast of Six Feet Under
5) G. W. Bush - We don't want this OS to suceed
Let's see:
"Free/NetBSD Foundation"
"McArthur Foundation"
"Ford Foundation"
That fits, you know. All of these foundations are named after the deceased.
After Darl finishes bending you Linux freaks over, we BSDers will be waiting with the cold compresses and Preparation H.
The vaccum that is your head is leaking.
yhbt
What We Can Learn From BSD
By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0
Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.
Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.
These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.
As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.
Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the benevolent goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.
The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.