Theo de Raadt has been a notorious prima donna with an attitude problem in the Unix world for many years. He not only engages in petty intra-Unix quarrels, but "his" OpenBSD stemmed from when he split it from FreeBSD because he most certainly didn't play nice with others. He likes to cause problems and strife.
"Theo de Raadt has been a notorious prima donna with an attitude problem in the Unix world for many years. He not only engages in petty intra-Unix quarrels, but "his" OpenBSD stemmed from when he split it from FreeBSD because he most certainly didn't play nice with others. He likes to cause problems and strife."
Theo split with NetBSD, not FreeBSD. He used to be one of the NetBSD core developers, and had written a great deal of the NetBSD code. He has posted the entire email exchange online, it's easy to find, I'll let anyone who cares make their own judgement as to who was hard to get along with.
That said, Theo and his OpenBSD core team are also the maintainer of the OpenSSH project.
I've used OpenBSD for many years, it is hands down the most POSIX correct UNIX available. OpenBSD project is not perfect, but it also takes security more seriously than any other OS I have encountered, I say that as an IT security guy who gets to break into computers for a living.