Linux creator criticizes makers of OpenBSD operating system

Linux creator Linus Torvalds noted that "security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand." The row came about after a developer who works to patch the Linux kernel accused Torvalds, among others, of not correctly labeling security flaws as such.

While concluding that security is important, Torvalds wrote that "it's no less important any everything else that is also important!"  He then went on to single out the creators of the OpenBSD operating system, accusing them of making a big deal about security to the detriment of almost everything else. The OpenBSD community places extraordinary pride on security and auditing their variant of Unix. Still, all appears to end well.  An OpenBSD developer wrote, "We all had a good laugh about it."

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