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Story: Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Posted by: Darian Anthony Patrick (Saturday 25 March 2006, 12:05 AM)
I agree with Lou Harrison about the comparison, though the case of comparing OpenBSD to Linux is more of an airing of dirty laundry of the FLOSS community, than is the comparison of Linux to Windows. I believe this is what will be most upsetting to people. That FLOSS in general is viewed as somewhat of the underdog and the do-gooder, and that one shouldn't bash the do-gooder.
In addition, this is wholly unverified and just my sympathizing, but it seems to me that Theo may just be under a lot of pressure right now with the OpenBSD project (that he and many other developers have spent many years of their lives working on) in jeopardy due to a lack of funding. I think we should excuse him. Although, he may not feel a need to be excused. Or Forbes may have quoted him out of context.
Who knows?
I'll still buy CD's and swag from OpenBSD, and still run both OpenBSD and Linux, and still (perhaps naively) trust that I'm using software of a much higher quality than other alternatives.
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Story: Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
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De Raadt should know. The Open BSD project is foc... Jack Smith
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De Raadt or whatever his name is may hve don... pete
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It is sad that we see persons from the BSD communi... Anonymous
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