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Sorry. No. There's no "political correctness" at here

Theo's comments in particular seem to start at

"NFSv4 is a gigantic joke on everyone."

This isn't politically incorrect, it's just noise. Nothing is gained from this comment. Even Linus with his infamous "rants" would have actual commentary laced in, Theo is just being dismissive

After someone reaffirms that they would like to use it, he replies

"Hahahahaha. That's a good one."

"I guess by "all the other protocols" you must be rejecting all the rest of your network traffic as "not protocols" or "not services"."

Again. Not helpful, just noise



Well, to be fair there was at least one poster who suggested that OP use SFTP instead of NFS... I mean why bother with a vegetable peeler when you could use a chisel instead?

So yeah, like you said--absolutely no useful information was conveyed in that thread. Besides any lurking bystanders learning those "in the group" are complete assholes.

http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/nfsv4-tp18690p1871...


Well, there was this prediction: "In about a decade the people who actually start auditing it are going to see all the mistakes that it hides."

So, since he wrote that in 2010, we can look forward this year to seeing if he was right.




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