[cperciva]

Netgate funds a lot of FreeBSD work, and employs FreeBSD committers. I certainly wouldn't describe them as hostile to open source.

[droopyEyelids]

It seems clear to me this is a case of passionate coders with different personalities struggling with the difficult work of human communication in a world with limited resources and time.

No one has to be the bad guy here or end up hostile to open source.

[tedunangst]

They can be a touch snotty towards developers who aren't freebsd committees.

[cperciva]

I think every project has people like that. I can think of some open source projects which are led by people with attitude problems.

[tptacek]

Real subtle, Colin.

[cperciva]

I mean, Linus has openly acknowledged that he has behaved unprofessionally in the emails he sends to people who are trying to contribute. There isn't anything secret here.

[Crontab]

LOL, my first thought was that you were talking about Theo.

[tptacek]

I think he was. :)

[tomxor]

Perhaps entitled is the right word then.

[cperciva]

Maybe. It's not necessarily without reason -- if you make a lot of contributions and they are generally very well received, it's quite sensible to anticipate that further contributions will be equally well received and to be surprised if they're not.

This was made worse by the unfortunate timing -- the final release candidate is just 3 days away. Any other time, we would have gone slower, had more discussion, et cetera; unfortunately this turned into an emergency.

[WarOnPrivacy]

I didn't know that. That's kind of awesome.