On 8/30/06, Charles M. Hannum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has gotten to the point that being associated with the project is often more of a liability than an asset. I will attempt to explain how this happened, what the current state of affairs is, and what needs to be done to attempt to fix the situation.
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Much of this early structure (CVS, web site, cabal, etc.) was copied verbatim by other open source (this term not being in wide use yet) projects -- even the form of the project name and the term "core". This later became a kind of standard template for starting up an open source project.
That's very interesting history, if true (and I don't see why it wouldn't be)! Don't feel bad then, if you have accomplished that. [snip]
-- At this point most readers are probably wondering whether I'm just writing a eulogy for the NetBSD project. In some ways, I am -- it's clear that the project, as it currently exists, has no future. It will continue to fall further behind, and to become even less relevant. This is a sad conclusion to a project that had such bright prospects when it started. I admit that I may be wrong about this, but I assume that most people who have contributed to NetBSD, and/or continue to do so, do not desire to see the project wallow away like this. So I will outline what I think is the only way out:
[snip] *cough*Most of these ideas have been in the OpenBSD culture from the beginning*cough*
- Charles Hannum - past founder, developer, president and director of The NetBSD Project and The NetBSD Foundation; sole proprietor of The NetBSD Mission; proprietor of The NetBSD CD Project. [I'm CCing this to FreeBSD and OpenBSD lists in order to share it with the wider *BSD community, not to start a flame war. I hope that people reading it have the tact to be respectful of their peers, and consider how some of these issues may apply to them as well.]
Um. Wow. I think Theo wins. -Nick
