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OpenBSD Clashes with Adaptec In Quest for Docs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-support-you-note-they-note dept.

TrumpetPower! writes "OpenBSD developers have been asking for documentation from Adaptec for over four months. Adaptec's response has been to deliberately misunderstand what is being asked of them. A former Adaptec employee admits that the hardware is buggy and tricky to get right. So, as a result, OpenBSD 3.7 will ship without Adaptec RAID support. Personally, I'm glad that Theo isn't resting on his laurels."

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  1. Re:How many people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because BSD is not Linux and it is definently not GPL. They have very different views on free software. While Linux and GPL support everything to be opensourced (even drivers) BSD people have a different approach - everything they develop is completely free software (unlike semi-free GPL) and if a company wants to put proprietary drivers in it, then so be it.

    The whole MIT/BSD culture can be described with one sentance;

    Being able to read other people's source code is a nice thing, not a fundamental freedom.

  2. Release Song by BusterB · · Score: 0, Troll

    They obviously were just looking for a scapegoat to write a new release song about. What would an OpenBSD release be without an homage to de Raadt's latest exercise in bridge-burning.

  3. legendary internet assholes by bani · · Score: 0, Troll

    theo de raadt
    d. j. bernstein

    others? :)