Yesterday Linus Torvalds called the OpenBSD developers a bunch of "masturbating monkeys." Seriously, he did.
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. [From Re: stable Linux 2.6.25.10]
While OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has a reputation for brusqueness, he makes arguments and doesn't result to simple name-calling. Linus wasn't making an argument in that e-mail, simply expressing on opinion (and an offensive one at that).
Paired with Free Software Foundation Richard Stallman's recent unwarranted vilification of Bill Gates, the charismatic leaders of the free software world are going to destroy it with their posturing and strutting.
Or maybe it's just time for both of them to step down. Gates recognized that the time was right. Will they?
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