[Cialug] OT-sorta: Theo De Raadt & Christos Zoulas

[Chris Hilton]

I have strong opinions.  But I like to think I can maintain a respect
for other people's ideas/work/opinions.  So I try  not to call them
names or discredit them (unless they're the President/Owner of a Billion
Dollar company -- I gotta have some fun!) :).  But that's just what I
like to think I suppose.


On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 16:40 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Theo has strong opinions.  Part of the reason he has his own *BSD sandbox.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hilton [mailto:chris129 at cs.iastate.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:27 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] OT-sorta: Theo De Raadt & Christos Zoulas
> 
> 
> 
> Did anyone catch this "interview" on forbes?
> http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinfrastructure/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz
> _dl_0616theo.html
> 
> I thought it was really bad.  I didn't realize De Raadt was so, well I can't
> describe him politely.
> 
> This one was a lot better, Zoulas seems like a very intelligent well-rounded
> guy: http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/06/09/2132233.shtml?tid=152&tid=8&tid=2
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how "off-topic" this is cause it's about Linux but it's
> political.  I just wondered what the local consensus would be on these
> comments.
> 
> My opinion is that De Raadt is far too Brooksian and schizmatic (tries to
> break up groups when it's really unnecessary over stupid crap) for my
> tastes.  I'm sure those 60 developers are very talented but frankly they're
> still only 60 humans (presumably 25% or more even have lives!).
> 
> That's just my initial reaction!  Well, actually my first reaction was:
> "Never using his software, I'd hate to ask him/people-like-him for a favor!"
> 
> Maybe he's been ripped out of context, is making a joke, or his wife just
> died?!
> 
> --Chris
> 
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