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EuroBSDCon 2004
Anonymous Reward writes "During the final weekend of October, nearly 200 people attended EuroBSDCon in Karlsruhe, Germany. The event offered a keynote by Apple's Jordan Hubbard, 23 talks organized in two tracks, a social event inside Luigi Colani's exhibition, and multiple coffee breaks to socialize. ONLamp.com has just published a report with funny pics..."
I think that it would be a very interesting thing to have a conference where as many developers as possible get together for a week long party and idea mixer.
One where the developers of things like OpenBGPd could talk straight to the developers of FreeBSD about how to properly integrate it, showing what was done to make it all work on OpenBSD and getting it to on FreeBSD.
Where people that make the systems and tools are face to face with one another and actually interact. How better can anyone spot the various pros and cons of the BSDs and improve on them then bringing together the people that work on the different codebases and getting them to talk and read eachother's stuff.
I am not saying that putting Darren Reed and Daniel Hartmeier in seats right next to each other would be the best thing, but getting people together really could help out the quality of all the projects.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Unfortunately, to some it is trying to destroy the BSDs. I don't much like the Linux systems' users proclaiming how dead BSD is now because of Linux' existance, doesn't stop people from saying it. And in the other way, Linux systems' users don't take too kindly to BSD people talking about how screwed up the way the Linux operating systems are developed and how shitty the code is to read.
I would say that the two sides of the trolling have taken things that are partially based on fact and turned them into big stinking horse loads.
Such is life, BSDs have had their ability to penetrate the market limited by the existance of an alternative that some companies like to use in accordance with buzzwords.
Linux systems' development are less structured, from the kernel to the bringing together of the systems, at least from the eyes of anyone that has seen a more structured development style, this is seen as a bad thing. And the kernel code is not as well coded and commented as other systems, the functionality I cannot say is bad, but the reading is hard.
I would not say that this makes Linux a piece of crap out to destroy the BSDs, I would simply say that I greatly dislike the way it is developed. I also happen to prefer the more structured form of userland used by BSDs.
I prefer to take a look at things on a system by system basis, the one that to me makes the most sense is OpenBSD. It only needs one floppy and a nic to install, it has very clear man pages and as long as you read up first you are good to go for asking the community about damn near anything. That doesn't make Gentoo the evil anti-OpenBSD, nor is SuSE, Fedora, Slack or Mandrake; hell, I had a damned hard time trying to install any of them so I must be completely out there and outside the norm of computer users.
There are avantages to the way in which your kernel of choice is made and disadvantages; that your core developers don't control or know all the code is a disadvantage, that you have a far greater number of code submissions is an advantage. I may not agree with it, but that doesn't stop it, so keep going, it really won't hurt me any.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
The BSD license is better than the GPL because it gives a person the choice to contribute their changes of their own freewill. The GPL forces people to release their changes to the public if they redistribute their code. Forced sharing is fundamentally and morally wrong.
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Most people will agree that the GPL is hard for businesses to accept because of the forced sharing model, while the more liberal BSD license is easier to accept. See http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.as
Given the opportunity, a company will redistribute its changes as Apple has done. While Apple has not released its proprietary or patented code, it has released its code to its FreeBSD based Darwin kernel and Konqueror based Safari browser.
I wouldn't call FreeBSD stagnant either. In fact I'd call FreeBSD 5.3 better than Linux.