[rescue] fuck you Theo

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 13:07:46 (-0400), Mike Nicewonger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] fuck you Theo
>
> *sigh*

Indeed...

While Theo's ego is big, and his interpersonal skills apparently quite
lacking at times (though perhaps it's more like with RMS -- they're
selectively withheld :-O), he's not uncharacteristic of all the *BSD
"core" team members.  It is inevitable that cliques will form amongst
the developers and that different releases will be the result.  FreeBSD
started that way too, so one might even go so far as to put the "blame"
on the NetBSD developers of the day....  :-)

I remember the first time Theo showed up at a Usenix conference after he
had started OpenBSD.  I've never before or since seen such totally
cliquish behaviour from a "product focused" group of techies (sales and
marketing critters, on the other hand....  :-).  IIRC that was even the
first conference where the Linux guys had a separate papers track, and
they were nowhere near as cliquish!  Linus' talk was moved twice into
bigger venues just prior to it beginning and still had a total over-flow
audience.

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