[WD40ForRust2]

It seems like a meme that GPL software developers are more ego driven than BSD/MIT software developers, and so bike shedding and new features take precedence over correctness/simplicity/beauty. I was a decade long Gentoo user who was frustrated by crashy software, switched back to pirated windows (I would never be caught dead paying for windows), only to find out the same trash developer habits carried over in my absence and now windows sucks just as much plus IT SPIES ON YOU!!! I'm now on Qubes OS hoping Xen is well enough built to assuage my anxieties.

[ryao]

The Linux developers involved use the CDDL. While some of them have patches in Linus’ tree, most of them are described as Linux developers because they develop and use the code on Linux. They have little to do with mainline Linux, partly because certain the mainline Linux developers will actively go out of their way to antagonize them if they even try to contribute to mainline. Certain others will simply ignore their emails. I will not say names, but I have had that happen to me in the past.

That said, I suspect you did not read the replies, since the code in question was written by a FreeBSD developer. Bugs in new code have been introduced by developers on both platforms. Unfortunately, the bugs in this feature were not caught before they reached a stable release. :/

[doublepg23]

> bike shedding and new features take precedence over correctness/simplicity/beauty.

I just learned the recent FreeBSD 14 release doesn't have 802.11n WiFi support. Is that considered bike shedding?