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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. How many people... by bird603568 · · Score: -1, Troll

    use openbsd? I thought that most of bsd users were freebsd. IMO it would be like some one on win 9x bitching about driver support.

    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. Re:How many people... by katana · · Score: -1, Troll
      Why do you think Theo got that award when he and Stallman don't exactly see eye-to-eye?

      Because, in the final furious masturbation circle that determined the winner, Theo came first.

  2. Re:just guessing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you have..... some lame job as a sysadmin? i bet the pay is great and the challenge of configuring software that other people have written is pretty awesome

  3. Re:theo rocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I wish the Linux people would have enough balls to make a stand with us. No such luck there.


    Please, just because the linux folks aren't fool enough to drink your Jonestown brand of Kool-Aid don't accuse them of not having balls. Theo's crew is great at placing a noose around its own neck while balancing on a pissed off mule with a lit stick of dynamite in their collective back pocket.
  4. 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.

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

    theo de raadt
    d. j. bernstein

    others? :)