Pretty straightforward — Theo De Raadt is quite a well-known "controversial" character, and he's pretty blunt with it, too. Remember, he's the guy who was punted from NetBSD for "[a] long history of rudeness towards and abuse of users and developers," and the guy who Linus Torvards described as "difficult."
He's also an astoundingly capable, effective and security-focused developer. This means that there's probably a hole in the FreeBSD distribution of OpenSSH that he's aware of any has not disclosed. Dickish behaviour, but that's his MO, so there's little to be surprised about.
Dickish and credibility-burning I'd say. The reason that he's described as controversial and difficult is that some people still can and want to connect with him due to his technical expertise. If that repeatedly becomes subject to his whims, however, he might slip into what lies beyond "controversial and difficult".
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Yeah, what is the world is this about? Can anyone clue us in?
Pretty straightforward — Theo De Raadt is quite a well-known "controversial" character, and he's pretty blunt with it, too. Remember, he's the guy who was punted from NetBSD for "[a] long history of rudeness towards and abuse of users and developers," and the guy who Linus Torvards described as "difficult."
He's also an astoundingly capable, effective and security-focused developer. This means that there's probably a hole in the FreeBSD distribution of OpenSSH that he's aware of any has not disclosed. Dickish behaviour, but that's his MO, so there's little to be surprised about.
Dickish and credibility-burning I'd say. The reason that he's described as controversial and difficult is that some people still can and want to connect with him due to his technical expertise. If that repeatedly becomes subject to his whims, however, he might slip into what lies beyond "controversial and difficult".