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LK2008: The values of the Linux communityLK2008: The values of the Linux communityPosted Oct 11, 2008 0:12 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: LK2008: The values of the Linux community by lmb Parent article: LK2008: The values of the Linux community I was a UC Berkeley grad student in the early 1990s, so it would have been natural for me to wind up as a BSDer, but it didn't work that way. It wasn't just the license. The BSD crowd was brilliant and talented, but they were extremely arrogant and did not get along with either outsiders or themselves (I personally witnessed some of the bitterness between the BSD camps). Linus was much more welcoming of contributions than the BSDers were, and much more interested in providing support for the kind of hardware the BSD crowd turned up their noses at. The result was that around 1993-4 it was just much easier and more fun to play in the Linux world, even for those of us old guys who grew up with BSD Unix.
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LK2008: The values of the Linux community Posted Oct 11, 2008 11:35 UTC (Sat) by ajb (subscriber, #9694) [Link]
Interesting, since these days, the kernel mailing list has something of a reputation as an intimidating place. Would you say its still more friendly than BSD was back then?
LK2008: The values of the Linux community Posted Oct 11, 2008 15:33 UTC (Sat) by jlokier (guest, #52227) [Link]
I think the kernel mailing list was less intimidating back in 1994, because there were far fewer contributors so you didn't have to fight for attention or prove every blue-sky idea with a quality working patch before you'd be taken seriously.
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