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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (One person's opinion)
Date: 12 Sep 1993 01:37:49 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In article <26p8ul$1eb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu
(Nate Williams) writes:

   But, if I were to join NetBSD today, I (have been told) that I am
   to keep my grubby little fingers out of the kernel.

This is a non-sequitur.  What you're referring to is the strawman
proposal for merging, not joining the NetBSD group outright.  If your
memory isn't too rusty, you'll recall that I disagreed with that part,
too.  (In fact, it's the primary reason why I rejected the proposal.)