I'm resigning from FreeBSD

[Richard Coleman]

I think the "FreeBSD is dying" crowd from slashdot have found the 
FreeBSD mailing lists.  They must be mad because they got a lump of coal 
in their Christmas stocking.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com

Pull-Henning Kunt wrote:
> Back in the day, around FreeBSD 2.2.8, it was a very nice
>  operating system. However, when RELENG_5 was branched, a
>  lot of wrong decisions were made, most of them by people
> with zero clue about how to implement proper SMP (e.g. John
> Baldwin). Matt Dillon tried to fix the situation, but all he
>  got in response was a commit bit suspension, which later
> lead to his expulsion (1)
> 
> (1) http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/03/239238.shtml?tid=122&tid=156
> 
> You can thank assholes like: Poul-Henning Kamp
> (POT, KETTLE, BLACK), Greg Lehey, Dag-Erling Smorgrav,
> Mark Murray and Bill Fumerola for kicking him out and making
> sure that, thanks to overengineering, RELENG_5 will never work.
> 
> Pull-Henning Kunt             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk at FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a kill da jews.
> 
> 
> 
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