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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Date: 15 Nov 1993 02:59:42 GMT Organization: Dublin, Ireland Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov14185942@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <crt.753292942@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <CGD.93Nov14085627@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHs3y.Au2@kithrup.com> <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 14 Nov 93 10:00:33 In article <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: perhaps the "us vs. them" comes from being pretty-much blindsided by the announcement? i dunno, i worked many long and hard hours on trying to get the two systems merged. I would have liked maybe 10 minutes notice of what was going on. Or perhaps some details from Jordan as to why FreeBSD decided to make this announcement... If you felt blind-sided, then I apologise. I didn't post it to -hackers because -hackers is just too big and I didn't feel like getting the abuse from many of the NetBSD people on it (and don't say I wouldn't have - you know better). own system, so they can claim it's "better," and not give us properly- attributed credit for the work we've done. The day that i started seeing postings on FreeBSD mailing lists which had no body, and only a subject which said "Has anybody picked up XXX from NetBSD yet?" where XXX was the "neat feature of the day," i lost all faith in FreeBSD's development process. Oh Chris, give us all a break ok? When I complained about NetBSD people doing exactly the same thing, you told me to get lost. When I asked you to have the people who felt `unattributed' contact us if they had a grievance, which we'd be more than happy to rectify, you never responded. Both messages are in my +outbox, you want me to dig them up and post them? This is just drivel.. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie