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		jmspring on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL Ripping out FIPS and Windows Support based on their use case isn't ripping out cruft. I think the codebase needs attention (I am personally way to comfortable with it), but a dramatic fork instead of collaboration isn't necessarily best for the open source community as a whole...

talideon on April 22, 2014 [–]

If they can't maintain it, then it certainly is cruft from their point of view.

Keep in mind that first and foremost they're doing this for OpenBSD: all other platforms are secondary.

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