From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 13:16:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 178249ED for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88D371D61 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s3GDGAvH011958; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:16:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <534E829A.6070405@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:16:10 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?TWloYWkgRG9uyJt1?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IFRoZSBzb3VyY2UgY29kZSBvZiAgKkJTRCBjb250YWlucyB0aGU=?= =?UTF-8?B?IGNvbW1lbnQgIOKAmERvZXMgdGhpcyBiZWxvbmcgaGVyZT/igJk=?= References: <20140416150701.330b76b8@mdontu-l> In-Reply-To: <20140416150701.330b76b8@mdontu-l> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:16:20 -0000 On 16/04/2014 13:07, Mihai Donțu wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:41:19 +0300 Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: >>> Lok Technologies , a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of networking >>> gear, started out using Linux in its equipment but switched to >>> OpenBSD four years ago after company founder Simon Lok, who holds a >>> doctorate in computer science, took a close look at the Linux >>> source code.“You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the >>> heart of the operating system, I found a developer’s comment that >>> said, ‘Does this belong here?’ “Lok says. “What kind of confidence >>> does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch.” >>> reference :http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html >>> The source code of *BSD contains the comment ‘Does this belong >>> here?’ >> >> I am very interested in being answered, please help me > > I noticed there's a trend these days to dig out these ancient articles > and try and stir up the BSD people. What's up with that? > Trolling, (im)pure and simple. Firstly the linked article is both nine years old and non-technical journalism with the usual journalist's simplistic love of hyping differences and disagreements. (And you can usually rely on Theo for the latter :-). It's exactly as relevant as the usual "scientists find X cures/causes cancer" stories you get in mainstream journalism. Secondly, I went so far as to grep the FBSD source tree (at least the 10.0-R source on my machine) and it does *not* contain any "Does this belong here?" comments. It does contain two comments remarking that bits of code could reasonably be put in one of two routines and one remarking that a kernel related declaration could be in either of two include/sys/*.h files. All of them are good commenting practice in system code rather than markers of incompetence like the OP is insinuating.