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How does the drama affect you using the product? I use open source software everyday and have yet to have any open source drama in my life.

• dx87 7y ago
  Even if the drama doesn't personally affect you, the internal drama can have technical implications, like key developers leaving the project, or forking it and you end up with multiple similar, but incompatible, products. OpenBSD splitting from NetBSD is a an example of that happening.
  • coldtea 7y ago
    Compared to what environment free of "internal drama"?
  • Splognosticus 7y ago
    I'd count the OpenBSD split as a net positive though. They're now different projects with different goals, both worthy in their own respects.
    • Fnoord 7y ago
      Hard to say. Don't know what happened if they didn't split.
      • Splognosticus 7y ago
        Fair point, but considering OpenBSD's goal is to be absolutely secure and NetBSD's goal is to "just work" on basically anything you want to run it on reconciling that would be at least as much work as just forking and then each project adopting useful things from the other as needed.