Matthew Garrett conspiracy theory of the day — Ok so this Ryan guy was apparently banned from the forums, I didn’t see the situation but based on previous interactions with the community as a whole, we all know how everyone goes “CoC!!! OMG!!” so that was likely.
What I love is in this link, in the comments, they somehow get to the point where it’s one big conspiracy and everyone is trying to cover it up. Entertaining read? Absolutely. Reality? Not so sure 
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#1 by Ryan on July 30, 2008 - 10:50 am
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What do I think?
I think it’s dirty, no matter what’s involved, most all of them are crooks.
-Ryan
#2 by Ryan on July 30, 2008 - 11:23 am
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“CoC!!! OMG!!†so that was likely.
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You sir, have just become my favorite person on the planet!
#3 by Tiago Faria on July 30, 2008 - 11:37 am
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ROFL!
“CoC!!! OMG!!†so that was likely.
#4 by anonymous on July 30, 2008 - 4:19 pm
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Not an OpenBSD guy by any means, but if you would have bothered to read the whole tread, or would have any experience with this particular operating system (or bait: with anything beyond Ubuntu
…), the answer would have been obvious to you: no, you do not have to recompile the whole userland nor reboot to apply an userland patch:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=121735167015401&w=2
#5 by sharms on July 30, 2008 - 4:28 pm
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When I read it the reply was:
“OpenBSD is mostly designed as a monolithic kernel. It’s a very small
kernel, only a couple of megs large, but it is one single program so
yes, to apply a security patch to the kernel you must recompile the
entire kernel.”
All of my servers are patched, have been patched, and none are running Ubuntu. Congrats on that sick burn attempt.
#6 by anonymous on July 30, 2008 - 4:51 pm
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No burn attempt — bad replies everywhere; be it Ubuntu forums or misc@ (and typically especially the latter…).
But quoting bad/false replies from random mailing lists to a blog forwarded to a planet with very large readership is another thing.
Sorry for the spam.
#7 by Ryan on July 30, 2008 - 7:12 pm
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OpenBSD=MM-BSD according to Torvalds.