On 5 Mar 2010, at 09:56, Alex Keda wrote:

It isn't managed by them whatsoever.

FreeBSD is a cooperative anarchy, driven by working code and rough consensus. That's what controls the checkins.

However, FreeBSD also exists as part of a larger community. If there's no compelling reason to make the work of some of those in that community more difficult, why should we do so?

Let's take a look at the current data in GNATS:

$ showwithtag patch | wc -l 1880

To reiterate, that's nearly two thousand PRs with patches. (I don't have statistics for how many of those relate to arch-specific areas of the codebase, however.)

Finally, IMVHO, if you want an operating system where philosophical purity overrides all practical concerns, you're going to be better off with something such as OpenBSD or Debian.

mcl