OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching

BsdFreakZoid writes "OpenBSD developers from all over the world get together once a year at their annual 'hackathon'. This year's hackathon is about to start with around 60 developers, taking place in Calgary, Alberta in Canada from May 21st through May 28th. KernelTrap has spoken with a number of OpenBSD developers about this year's and past hackathons. OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt is quoted saying, "a few hackathons ago we had a slogan of 'shut up and hack', this is because hackathons are not conferences. People don't come to chit-chat, but to do what projects do. Some other projects hold discussion meetings, I would call those talkathons. We don't discuss, we do." Past OpenBSD hackathons have seen the introduction of SMP support, support for the amd64 architecture, and many other significant advances. What big advance will come out of the 2005 hackathon is yet to be seen."

Comments

Re:Adaptec?

[Nimrangul]

Scott's reaction to OpenBSD's call for it's users and other concerned Adaptec customers to voice their opinion about documentation is the major basis for my comment.

He said that what Theo was doing was wrong and that the closed source CLI he made was perfectly fine - that things like Theo's little crusade hurt all BSDs further hopes of companies cooperating with them.

The shouting and the threats and all the other tripe reflect poorly on everyone, whether you choose to see it or not, and _that's_ what I oppose in Theo, not his passion for openness.

--Scott Long, ex-Adaptec worker and FreeBSD developer

He thinks they're asses for following an ass - that a bunch of users who own Adaptec hardware asking that developers of an operating system they use be given documentation instead of just using some SDK that may happen in the future or using a closed couse CLI that they don't want and doesn't do everything they want.

In the end, a good quote, sourced through Rob Payne, to apply to Theo:

"I am a free prince and have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred sail of ships and an army of a hundred thousand men in the field. And this my conscience tells me; that there is no arguing with such sniveling puppies who allow superiors to kick them about the deck at pleasure, and pin their faith upon the pimp of a parson, a squab who neither practices nor believes what he puts upon the chuckle-headed fools he preaches to."

--Black Sam Bellamy, pirate captain of the Whydah