http://www.halberd.org/2005/06/17/irrelevancy-is-for-losers/ we do nothing important, and we're very good at it Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.halberd.org/2005/06/17/irrelevancy-is-for-losers/#comment-3257 tm Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:33:29 +0000 http://www.halberd.org/?p=95#comment-3257 Theo de Raadt is a huge asshole, both online, in person and now, in print. OpenBSD claims of “quality” are frankly overblown. Many a time, its design has been picked apart by other security researchers (e.g. Dave Aitel’s amusing and caustic critique of OpenBSD’s stack overflow protection). It’s not a bad OS, and its implementation of pf and carp are great additions to the greater community. But if Theo is wondering why he’s being left in the dust by Linux, he only needs to look in the mirror (and in the archives of the openbsd mailing lists where he inevitably flames new users). Simply put, Linus Torvalds, while also an asshole, is a far better manager and far better at promoting Linux (mainly by overcoming his natural programmer asshole-ness with humor) than Theo could ever hope to be with OpenBSD (since Theo is incapable of humor). This difference has attracted hundreds of developers to the linux kernel alone (as opposed to the 60 syncophants that surround Theo). While their ability may vary, linux’s relative egalitarianism esp in comparison to the *BSDs is the major reason for its popularity. If Theo is so smart, then why doesn’t his self-proclaimed genius understand that you cannot be extremely elitist and hope to gather the same popularity when there are more open and egalitarian communities around? You can’t have both a restrictive treehouse mentality where you berate potential users and insult their intelligence and popularity and expect to be embraced by the very people you deem morons. Theo has made his choice eminently clear, and the openbsd mail archives bear out his choice of being an elitist asshole. That he sits around and now bitches about not being popular is hypocritical and asinine in the extreme. Theo de Raadt is a huge asshole, both online, in person and now, in print. OpenBSD claims of “quality” are frankly overblown. Many a time, its design has been picked apart by other security researchers (e.g. Dave Aitel’s amusing and caustic critique of OpenBSD’s stack overflow protection). It’s not a bad OS, and its implementation of pf and carp are great additions to the greater community. But if Theo is wondering why he’s being left in the dust by Linux, he only needs to look in the mirror (and in the archives of the openbsd mailing lists where he inevitably flames new users). Simply put, Linus Torvalds, while also an asshole, is a far better manager and far better at promoting Linux (mainly by overcoming his natural programmer asshole-ness with humor) than Theo could ever hope to be with OpenBSD (since Theo is incapable of humor). This difference has attracted hundreds of developers to the linux kernel alone (as opposed to the 60 syncophants that surround Theo). While their ability may vary, linux’s relative egalitarianism esp in comparison to the *BSDs is the major reason for its popularity. If Theo is so smart, then why doesn’t his self-proclaimed genius understand that you cannot be extremely elitist and hope to gather the same popularity when there are more open and egalitarian communities around? You can’t have both a restrictive treehouse mentality where you berate potential users and insult their intelligence and popularity and expect to be embraced by the very people you deem morons. Theo has made his choice eminently clear, and the openbsd mail archives bear out his choice of being an elitist asshole. That he sits around and now bitches about not being popular is hypocritical and asinine in the extreme.

]]> http://www.halberd.org/2005/06/17/irrelevancy-is-for-losers/#comment-3255 Big Ray Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:54:10 +0000 http://www.halberd.org/?p=95#comment-3255 ROFL! ROFL!

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