Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:11:52 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s) Message-ID: <199904191711.LAA28594@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199904191702.KAA43787@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199904191641.MAA24418@bellsouth.net> <199904191702.KAA43787@rah.star-gate.com>
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> FreeBSD is somewhat of a closed development enviroment what > some organizations do is that they maintain their own cvs repository. FreeBSD is no more closed than "linux" is, which is touted as the most open development project that exists. Joe Average person can no more commit can't commit code to the linux 'development' tree than he can to the FreeBSD tree, since there are 'developers' that maintain both trees. I know of *NO* completey open development environment, but FreeBSD's is *MUCH* more open than most, including Linux's. With the FreeBSD environment, the entire 'process' of development is more open (it is almost completely public except for some discussions that happen on the core mailing list, which I assume are less technical and more political) than any other project I'm aware of. What other project (aside from OpenBSD) gives you the ability to see the entire source code history of the tree, along with real-time discussion and development of the source code? All 'source code' control is guarded by a certain group of people in *every* project, and FreeBSD is no different. It just has different folks guarding it, who have different standards and requirements. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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