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NetBSD Quarterly Status Report Published

Posted by timothy on from the what-they've-done dept.

jschauma writes "The NetBSD Foundation published its second quarterly status report in 2005, covering the months April through June of 2005. Among many other things, this status report covers NetBSD's participation in Google's "Summer of Code", the new stable pkgsrc branch and various port-specific items."

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  1. sad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. ...unless the news is about anything related to BSD, in which case it gets completely ignored (or trolled).

    Kinda sad considering this is actually worth discussing. (i.e. not a dupe or trying to provoke anti-MS comments or conspiracy theories)

    1. Re:sad... by Nimrangul · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Well, the BSD articles seem to be trolled so much because of Linux fans feeling insecure.

      It seems to me to be a case of George Carlin's Bigger Dick Foreign Policy being translated to the software world.

      You see, Linux fans get to say that they work with Free and Open software, but then there are these BSD guys that claim to be working on Freer and Opener software. They don't force cooperation and they don't allow as much binary stuff in their codebases.

      This makes Linux fans feel uncomfortable and since they have no bombs handy, they troll.

      What they need to do is just be the freedom loving hippies they claim to be and stop being bullying jerks, but most of them grew up in a nation run under the Bigger Dick Foreign Policy and thus don't really know how to get along with people.

      I call it the Bigger Dick Sofware Scheme, I'm open to further developing of the theory, just leave proper credit.

      Hmmm, BDSS, maybe if I rearranged those words a little.

      --
      I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
    2. Re:sad... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Insightful
      gets completely ignored

      Well my excuse is that it came in at 4:00 in the morning.

      I plan to ignore the 3.0 release in the same way I have ignored the 1.6, 2.0 and 2.0.2 releases on my web servers.

      It will run, I will demand and get total reliability, and will therefore spend very little time thinking about it.

      If you want to talk about something, talk about something with issues

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      http://michaelsmith.id.au