Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
by gonzo on Monday August 20, 2012 @03:09PM
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Started in IT in 1980. I'm 50 this year. First FOSS contributions were in Nov 87 (patches to gcc/gdb/emacs for convex machines). This pre-dates any contribution by ESR, and it enrages him when I point it out. :-)
My company ships quite a bit of FreeBSD (as pfSense). Could have gone linux, but linux is a mess (much worse than ports.)
I think OpenBSD is a mistake, at best it belongs as a group focused on security inside the netbsd project, but of course, Theo got kicked out of netbsd, thus: OpenBSD.
I'm also the guy who appointed Russ Nelson the "patron saint of bike shedding." Just FYI. :-) (None of Eric Raymond, Russ Nelson or Theo de Raat like me much.)
The first time I read of 'Cathedral & Bazaar' I thought ESR was illustrating and contrasting the BSD .vs linux development model. Only later did I understand that he was pointing fingers at GNU/FSF, not BSD.
My company ships quite a bit of FreeBSD (as pfSense). Could have gone linux, but linux is a mess (much worse than ports.)
I think OpenBSD is a mistake, at best it belongs as a group focused on security inside the netbsd project, but of course, Theo got kicked out of netbsd, thus: OpenBSD.
I'm also the guy who appointed Russ Nelson the "patron saint of bike shedding." Just FYI. :-) (None of Eric Raymond, Russ Nelson or Theo de Raat like me much.)
The first time I read of 'Cathedral & Bazaar' I thought ESR was illustrating and contrasting the BSD .vs linux development model. Only later did I understand that he was pointing fingers at GNU/FSF, not BSD.