Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

marc.info

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 99 posts

Re: Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

#6

Post by TylerE »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #5

"Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is “difficult” and declined to comment further." https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616t... Imagine being so hard you're labelled as "difficult" by no other but Linus Torvalds

I mean, Torvalds has called basically every person on earth an asshole at some point, hasn’t he? He’s the opposite of being sparing with critisicism, and frankly has historically often used his bully pulpit to do it.

Re: Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

#8

Post by sidkshatriya »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #5

"Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is “difficult” and declined to comment further." https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616t... Imagine being so hard you're labelled as "difficult" by no other but Linus Torvalds

Thanks for sharing the forbes link. From the link:

"De Raadt says BSD could have become the world's most popular open source operating system, except that a lawsuit over BSD scared away developers, who went off to work on Linux and stayed there even after BSD was deemed legal."

There is some truth to that. And who knows where BSDs might have been if the lawsuit never happened.

However, I think Linux has always has and till today has better leadership, and management compared to OpenBSD.

I also think GPLv2 was another good that happened to Linux. It just creates an irresistible force to contribute back. With *BSD, a company might contribute back or it may not.

Re: Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

#9

Post by metoobruh »

TylerE wrote: post #6
Gualdrapo wrote: post #5

"Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is “difficult” and declined to comment further." https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616t... Imagine being so hard you're labelled as "difficult" by no other but Linus Torvalds

I mean, Torvalds has called basically every person on earth an asshole at some point, hasn’t he? He’s the opposite of being sparing with critisicism, and frankly has historically often used his bully pulpit to do it.

[flagged]

Re: Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

#10

Post by [deleted] »

sidkshatriya wrote: post #8
Gualdrapo wrote: post #5

"Torvalds, via e-mail, says De Raadt is “difficult” and declined to comment further." https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616t... Imagine being so hard you're labelled as "difficult" by no other but Linus Torvalds

Thanks for sharing the forbes link. From the link: "De Raadt says BSD could have become the world's most popular open source operating system, except that a lawsuit over BSD scared away developers, who went off to work on Linux and stayed there even after BSD was deemed legal." There is some truth to that. And who knows where BSDs might have been if the lawsuit never happened. However, I think Linux has always has an…

[deleted]
Post reply on HN