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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12859 comp.os.386bsd.development:1379 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6467 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1366 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE? Date: 4 Nov 1993 01:55:03 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2b9ndn$1t5@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) writes: > >>> There was an unofficial patch kit at one point, >>> but that has since been abandoned, and support by >>> the author has always been minimal. > >I'm not sure what this little bit of rhetoric means. The patchkit was >sufficiently supported and worked quite well. Before this out of context quote gets any further play as an attempt by Chris to bash the patchkit, I'd like to point out that the original post contained and English language construct called a double entendre (a nice French word). It's the written equivalent of the verbal "you can never have too much water in a nuclear reactor" from the Saturday Night Live skit with Ed Asner. Does it mean you can put in all the water you want? Does it mean it's dangerous to have any water in it? The intent of the message was to say that Bill Jolitz hadn't supported 386BSD 0.1 very well... Chris wasn't bashing the patchkit or FreeBSD, which evolved from the patchkit maintainers. >There does seem to be a bit of a conflict of interest here... >This has come up before, but perhaps someone should CFD *netbsd and/or >*freebsd newsgroups. Or just "bsd"? This might be a good idea... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.