... or, more precisely, "grown-ass men acting like children". read the whole thread here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ker ... neral/1558
OpenBSD drops Broadcom wireless b/c of GPL violations
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Re: OpenBSD drops Broadcom wireless b/c of GPL violations
Yeah, this is really out of control!! Oh well, at least not as much as the KDE vs. GNOME flamewars.TankCatNinjaFish wrote:... or, more precisely, "grown-ass men acting like children". read the whole thread here
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule."
- Siddhattha Gotama (Buddha), founder of Buddhism.
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.
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