> "in the end, my job is to say no. Somebody has to be able to say no to people."
This is funny to me, because I feel like Linux got ahead over BSD specifically because it had a more accepting policy in the beginning.
I think this says something important about project maturity and lifecycle. BSD was already a "well established" system by the time the Linux kernel appeared, and as such had more gatekeeping to meet their standards.
There was also the licensing/copyright controversy. It wasn't clear that BSD was really free until Linux was already taking off. From 1992-1994 there was a legal cloud over BSD and probably even after that people had lingering doubts that something like that could happen again.
This is funny to me, because I feel like Linux got ahead over BSD specifically because it had a more accepting policy in the beginning.
I think this says something important about project maturity and lifecycle. BSD was already a "well established" system by the time the Linux kernel appeared, and as such had more gatekeeping to meet their standards.