Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

From: Richard Coleman (richardcoleman_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 12/27/03

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    Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:52:39 -0500
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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.
    >
    >
    >
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