Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52:39 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD Message-ID: <3FEDB8D7.704@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <40607.202.54.61.104.1072460348.squirrel@webmail.catholic.org> References: <40607.202.54.61.104.1072460348.squirrel@webmail.catholic.org>
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I think the "FreeBSD is dying" crowd from slashdot have found the FreeBSD mailing lists. They must be mad because they got a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com Pull-Henning Kunt wrote: > Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice > operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a > lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people > with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John > Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he > got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later > lead to his expulsion (1) > > (1) http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/03/239238.shtml?tid=122&tid=156 > > You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp > (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, > Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making > sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work. > > Pull-Henning Kunt FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a kill da jews. > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. > http://webmail.catholic.org/ > > Celebrate Advent with Catholic Online. Support our Advent > sponsors by visiting them at http://www.catholic.org/clife/advent/specials.php
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