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OpenBSD drops Broadcom wireless b/c of GPL violations
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:57 am
by TankCatNinjaFish
... or, more precisely, "grown-ass men acting like children". read the whole thread here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ker ... neral/1558
Re: OpenBSD drops Broadcom wireless b/c of GPL violations
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:51 am
by Tsuroerusu
TankCatNinjaFish wrote:... or, more precisely, "grown-ass men acting like children". read the whole thread here
Yeah, this is really out of control!! Oh well, at least not as much as the KDE vs. GNOME flamewars.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:45 pm
by snarkout
I saw this a few days ago on osnews. I haven't read the entire thing, but I certainly understand not wanting your GPLed work absorbed by bsd and therefore released under a BSD license. To my way of looking at thisngs, the only one who was being childish was Theo, if you want to call acting generally unplesent "childish." I think the whole thing could have been handled in a much more diplomatic way though - perhaps it was a case of linux driver developers sick of being told how much better OpenBSD drivers are and retaliating verbally in the open to cause a stink when they discovered their work being "accidentally" used by OpenBSD - I don't know, though, and probably never will.