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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Date: 14 Nov 1993 21:30:20 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 42 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov14163020@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com> <MYCROFT.93Nov14140930@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <2c618k$j2d@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 14 Nov 1993 19:34:44 GMT In article <2c618k$j2d@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: (The *YOUR* is on purpose. Paul has made it clear that his code is freely available to anyone, and not just for NetBSD) Once again, you're making a useless point. We all know it is Paul Kranenburg's implementation. What I have pointed out is that it works in NetBSD quite well, and that the effort to make it work in FreeBSD has so far been laughable. [Non-sequiturs omitted.] Unlike Chris, those changes were from NetBSD and you offered them to FreeBSD afterwards. So what? The point is that I have explicitly donated work to FreeBSD. You cannot honestly say you have donated work to NetBSD. That was the question at hand. You don't happen to mention the recent work you've done in *obtaining* FreeBSD code. There's no question I've looked at a number of recent changes in FreeBSD, and other than a few typos that were corrected, I've found nothing worthwhile. If you were to enumerate the things you've taken from NetBSD recently you'd it's quite a lot of code. (`you' == `FreeBSD') Here's a questions I'd like to pose. Do all the people who donate their code to NetBSD realize that the only way that the general public can see their code is after you've hacked and slashed it up? People who donate code have to realize that their code will be changed if necessary to fit in our tree. If they don't like this, they don't have to donate it. That's not unusual or unreasonable. And the term `hacked and slashed' is a derogatory term implying that my changes are misguided. They certainly are not. [More non-sequiturs omitted.]