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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!matlock.mindspring.com!usenet From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 02 Dec 1995 12:44:08 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 25 Sender: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com Message-ID: <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: interbev.mindspring.com In-reply-to: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 2 Dec 1995 10:52:32 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.10 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29734 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10055 comp.unix.advocacy:11916 comp.unix.misc:19943 On 2 Dec 1995 10:52:32 GMT, nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) said: > Summary: You have to be a member of the BSD core team to be able > to see any real changes in the source code. Membership is restricted > to a select group, and if your not in that group, tough luck. Even > if your a good programmer, but other people in the group don't > like you, you can get kicked out. Not exactly what I call "open" or > a conductive development environment. FreeBSD makes the latest sources available via SUP. No, I personally can't check things out of the CVS tree. I don't know of any single CVS tree that defines the Linux kernel (or userland, for that matter). FreeBSD has a core team capable of committing changes to the source tree. Linux has one person (Linus) capable of committing changes to the source tree. The situation is the same for the average Joe working on either system: you develop on your own system(s) and send your patches to somebody with write access to the main source tree. That's either one of the FreeBSD core team or Linus. I'm not saying that FreeBSD is the final word in open software development or that Linux is absolutely closed, but in the spirit of this thread I must ask: how is Linux development *more* open? -- Robert