On 17 Dec 2016, at 20:47, Alphons van Werven <[email protected]> wrote: > But ever >> since some time during the 9.X era I started to pick up signs that the >> FreeBSD project as a whole is moving into a direction that troubles me--in >> some cases deeply indeed.
I don't know what direction Fonz sees the project moving in [his loss will be significant, and I personally wish he would reconsider], but I've had a sense for some time that there's an undercurrent of some kind moving us insensibly toward Linux and, strangely, a mix of uncaringness and authoritarianism. I can't really quote specifics on my perception of a Linux-ward drift because I haven't been keeping an evidence notebook. But for evidence of authoritarianism creeping in, I offer the imposition of the new pkg utility on all of us awhile back even though it was still half-baked. That came as qute a shock, at least to me. I didn't like it at all. And now there seems to be some psychological warfare going on over basic build tools. I go back a ways with FreeBSD, v1.1.3 or something like that. So I'm not ready to bail, but I really, truly, no-kidding perceive a drift toward incoherence that, unless reversed, will make FreeBSD just another footnote in computing history, like Minix, 386BSD, the UCSD P-system, and others that after a brief heyday ceased to matter because their support base was hobby-oriented and uncommitted, with neither a clear vision for the future nor even a desire for one. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
