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Staying on the cutting edge (The Age)Staying on the cutting edge (The Age)Posted Oct 8, 2004 17:06 UTC (Fri) by neiljerram (subscriber, #12005)Parent article: Staying on the cutting edge (The Age)
A life (thus far) determined by insults, it seems. (Both received and given.)
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Staying on the cutting edge (The Age) Posted Oct 8, 2004 18:26 UTC (Fri) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] I was primarily a lurker on the various BSD lists in final days before the creation of OpenBSD. Two things were clear to me at the time. One, Theo was a very difficult person to deal with and two, he was doing the vast majority of the work. Given that combination I found his expulsion (And from what I recall it was an expulsion) from the fold rather silly.
He may have been a pain to deal with but he was right more often then not and he didn't just talk, he got things done. And in an enterprise where nobody is getting payed that is worth dealing with a difficult personality.
Staying on the cutting edge (The Age) Posted Oct 8, 2004 18:45 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] He doesn't mention that besides starting his own repository, he also sabotaged the official NetBSD repository on his way out.
It's a fine thing to do lots of work and to be right most of the time. It's essential to accept that you're not always right and to listen to others as they explain why not. That might be the most important difference between him and Linus.
Staying on the cutting edge (The Age) Posted Oct 9, 2004 22:15 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] He doesn't mention that besides starting his own repository, he also sabotaged the official NetBSD repository on his way out.Whaaaat?!?? [makes mental note to never, ever cross Theo, and preferably to stay on another continent]
Staying on the cutting edge (The Age) Posted Oct 10, 2004 11:13 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] he also sabotaged the official NetBSD repository on his way out.Which sounds even more impressive when you remember they'd removed his commit bit. Or are you saying he broke into their server?
Staying on the cutting edge (The Age) Posted Oct 11, 2004 20:11 UTC (Mon) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] From what I recall they removed his ability to commit before he made the final break. It should all be in the list archive from around that time, assuming there is an archive on line some place. It was mostly played out in a very public and ugly way from what I recall.
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