From: Todd C Miller <mill...@cs.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 1995/11/25
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Speaking simply as someone who watched all of the sillyness that
transpired on the NetBSD mailing lists during the Theo escapade,
I'm sorrow that the schism happened, but that's about it.
Theo has done some amazing work and I hope that the copyright
for OpenBSD is in the Berkeley style so that the other BSD's
can pick up some of his stuff. I'm sure that there will be
quite a few people upset about yaBSD (yet another BSD), but
I don't see healthy competition being a real problem as long
as both camps are free to incorporate the other's ideas and
code. Not surprisingly, this is how I felt about the NetBSD/FreBSD
split.
- todd
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Todd C. Miller Sysadmin--University of Colorado Todd.Mil...@cs.colorado.edu
From: d...@cs.purdue.edu (David Moffett)
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 1995/11/26
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Would it be opening Pandoras Box for us non-list readers to get a one
screen summary of what caused this split? Was it a people vs people or
technical ideas vs technical ideas kind of problem?
Please no flames, just a short summary.
David Moffett
(d...@cs.purdue.edu)
From: ch...@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 1995/11/26
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In article <498sl3$...@ector.cs.purdue.edu>,
David Moffett <d...@cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
>Would it be opening Pandoras Box for us non-list readers to get a one
>screen summary of what caused this split? Was it a people vs people or
>technical ideas vs technical ideas kind of problem?
~one screen summary:
- a bit more than a year ago NetBSD/core decided that Theo de Raadt should
be removed from Core based on Theo's behavior ("rude and abusive"), and
also on flames/email that Theo sent privately to a person working on NetBSD.
[that person forwarded (without permission) Theo's flames back to Core,
and to Theo's boss at the time]
- Core waited one night until Theo went to sleep and then disabled his account
on all the main NetBSD machines. This had the effect of removing him from
Core and removing his CVS access (out of fear of revenge). They then
sent him an email after the fact telling him that he had to resign.
- Theo, rather upset, dropped off the net for a while.
- Theo later changed jobs, and resurfaced. He started working on NetBSD/sparc
again. He contacted Core and requested that his CVS access be restored. At
first he released some of his changes to NetBSD, but later decided to hold
on to his changes to the source code until the issue of his CVS access was
resolved. [this didn't sit well with a lot of users]
- Core indicated to Theo that they were willing to negotiate on CVS access,
and Theo stated that he would agree to what ever it was that other users
with CVS access were agreeing to at the time.
- Core decided to formulate a "CVS access" document that everyone with CVS
access would have to agree to. Theo was told to wait for this document.
- Theo waited about 5 months for this document to be produced by Core.
Core was unable to produce the document and kept telling Theo to wait.
- Theo, feeling ignored, got tired of waiting and released his copy of his
email dialogue with Core (to show people that he had been waiting and
trying) and then decided to start OpenBSD.
that's the story in a screen or so.
chuck
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Computer and Communications Research Center
Washington University, St. Louis MO USA
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From: cehar...@mal.com (Carl Harris)
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 1995/11/27
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Michael L. VanLoon (micha...@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: In article <30B6A790.41C67...@FreeBSD.org>
: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <j...@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Just looking at http://www.openbsd.org this evening, and it looks like a
: significant NetBSD clone in many respects - at least most of the
: platforms would appear to be NetBSD "rebadges" for the time being.
: I was just wondering how the NetBSD folk felt about this additional
: schism within the BSD camp, given that it was started by an ex-NetBSD
: I think the majority of the NetBSD folk, especially the core members,
: are officially saying "No comment" for obvious reasons.
Maybe if we ignore it (OpenBSD) it will slip quietly into insignificance.
--
Carl Harris
EXECUTIVE Scapegoat
cehar...@mal.com
From: mig...@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza)
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 1995/12/04
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> : I think the majority of the NetBSD folk, especially the core members,
> : are officially saying "No comment" for obvious reasons.
>
>
> Maybe if we ignore it (OpenBSD) it will slip quietly into insignificance.
OpenBSD has a couple of ports to new architectures (two of them?).
And David Miller (Linux' Sparc porter) will be adding some nice
surprises to OpenBSD.
Miguel.
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