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For those who missed it: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/00649...

That Ars article is so distorted that it should best be seen as creative fiction.

Do you have a link to the real story?

Who mentioned anything about an Ars article? I read the whole debacle on mailing lists and Twitter. That was enough to form my own conclusions and I did not come away from that impressed with the FreeBSD development environs. It definitely flys in the face that somehow FreeBSD upholds technical excellence above business interests as is being claimed in the article.

It was quite blown out of proportion even outside of the published articles.

What was the debacle?

FreeBSD 13 came very close to shipping with a WireGaurd implementation with many bugs an vulerabilites that were quickly identified by the creator of the WireGaurd prototocal shortly after learning about the update.

Attempts were made to fix it, but they eventually decided to ship 13.0 without wiregaurd.

It was very policitcal because the company that sponsored the development had already promised the feature to customers.