From owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mon Jul 25 20:36:43 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2383BA4851 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell1.rawbw.com (shell1.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6DD11CE for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from yuri.doctorlan.com (c-24-5-143-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.5.143.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell1.rawbw.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u6PKabIx087954 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.rawbw.com: Host c-24-5-143-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.5.143.190] claimed to be yuri.doctorlan.com Subject: Re: What Larry McVoy (bitkeeper) got wrong .... To: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" References: <44e4450e-8dbb-f401-bd5c-df503f7a4ef8@FreeBSD.org> <868twsqn1a.fsf@desk.des.no> <20160724003115.GY78278@eureka.lemis.com> <44ceaa97-028e-37ca-2a66-2e211bc5d3db@fastmail.com> <20160724224759.1b93545b@KoggyBSD.org> <264e186a-68c9-ee38-5137-03dfee8d70a8@openmailbox.org> From: Yuri Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:36:36 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <264e186a-68c9-ee38-5137-03dfee8d70a8@openmailbox.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:36:43 -0000 On 07/25/2016 12:00, twilight wrote: > The only sad thing is that *BSD is actually dying. Linux is getting > literally everywhere, spoiling standards with linuxisms and accepting > blobs (that are still Linux-specific, so no hardware support even with > blobs and no open specs also). So, losing contributors, that are going > to more popular projects, lacking the hardware support and better to not > talk about the dead FreeBSD media-advertising will eventually lead to a, > at first, marginal haiku-like community and death of a bunch of little > flavors (DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), and, then, to the end of life > of the system. So sad, that the money and legacy, not the efficiency and > power make the modern IT world. I don't think BSD isn't going to die though. BSD is very appealing to those who is able to really appreciate technology. This is sadly a very small fraction of even those in the computer field. But still, FreeBSD has been active for decades now, and there is a pretty active community not showing any signs of dying. There will always be people who will be able to recognize greatness when they see it. I hope it will stay this way. Yuri