I think you might have misunderstood the GP (or I misunderstood your reply). The GP comment was saying that the BSD programmers are critical _to_ the linux ecos

I think you might have misunderstood the GP (or I misunderstood your reply). The GP comment was saying that the BSD programmers are critical _to_ the linux ecosystem, not that they are critical _of_ the linux ecosystem. Like I said, sorry if I misunderstood your post.