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From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
Message-ID: <CGIB20.7xs@aib.com>
Organization: AIB Software, Inc.
References: <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com> <CGD.93Nov14105344@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 00:08:23 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Nov14105344@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>>Or perhaps some details from Jordan
>>>as to why FreeBSD decided to make this announcement...
>>
>>I think you already know that.  Or did you think that removing CVS access
>>for only the freebsd folks was going to have no ramifications?
>
>If that was their reasoning, perhaps they should have made it public.
>Ahh, Mr. Big (Mouth) is making himself spokesman for FreeBSD?

Just curious - how old are you?  Planning to reach puberty this decade, I hope.

>
>Also, i'd be more inclined to believe your argument if the chronology
>were what you claimed.  Jordan's note was posted to .announce at:
>13 Nov 1993 22:31:38 -0800.  CVS access on lamp for FreeBSD developers
>not working on the NetBSD source tree at 22:40 (-0800, 13 November).
>How do i know?  well, i'm looking at the ctime of a file that i chmodded
>when their access went away.  You can't call it a response if it happens
>before what it's responding to.  "cause and effect; logic 101."
>
>Note that people working on FreeBSD who *are* working on NetBSD
>did not have their access to NetBSD's CVS tree denied.  Only those
>who are doing no work on NetBSD cannot access our CVS tree.
>Therefore, you can't claim that we're kicking people out of our
>tree because they work with (or even mostly with) FreeBSD; that's
>just not true.  If they're not working on NetBSD, then they don't
>have access; plain and simple.
>

Well, people, bizarre as this sounds, I think this posting proves
Jesus Monroy right.  Chris - you should step down as moderator.  You
are not only biased, you are vindictive.  I suppose I can expect
to have problems getting XFree86 stuff posted in the future now.

Man, you make me sick.  For that matter, I'm pretty much sick of
ALL of this BSD-du-jour junk.  You folks can't agree on ANYTHING,
can you?  Why is it that XFree86 has to support 3 different console
driver APIs?  And that there are still more around that aren't 
supported (I think)?  There WAS a task force that was going to try to
resolve all of this for us - to come up with a single common API
for the console driver.  But your bloody egos couldn't even accomplish
that much - one subset of ioctl()s on one device.

>
>
>chris
>--
>chris g. demetriou                                   cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
>
>                    smarter than your average clam.


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