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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc 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!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!virtech!dwex From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Message-ID: <CGIMqs.8Jo@aib.com> Organization: AIB Software, Inc. References: <CGD.93Nov14105344@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <CGIB20.7xs@aib.com> <MYCROFT.93Nov14202720@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 04:20:52 GMT Lines: 46 In article <MYCROFT.93Nov14202720@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >In article <CGIB20.7xs@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) >writes: > > 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. > >This is just plain ridiculous, Dave. Even ignoring your snide >remarks, you have in no way shown that Chris is not doing his job as >moderator of .announce. Maybe not to you, but I no longer have any confidence whatsoever that he is capable of just posting the goddam things without censoring things that don't fit the NetBSD religion. > > 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. > >And once again, you show quite clearly that you have not bothered to >check your facts. I was on the console mailing list; I know what >happened. They got stuck in the rathole of trying to design the >ultimate driver and never actually produced a usable spec or code to >match. > Where is this fact in any way in opposition to my statement? The task force was chartered to solve the X API problem - I know; the task force came out of my flaming this stupidity before. The fact that nothing got done because it all dissolved in irrelvencies just goes to PROVE my point about the inability to develop a single API because of egos. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@aib.com> (703) 430-9247 Fax: (703) 450-4560 AIB Software, Inc., 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160, Dulles, VA 20166 Formerly Virtual Technologies, Inc. Mail regarding XFree86 should be sent to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au> "Ooh, are you feelin' satisfied? Come on, let us give your mind a ride." -- Boston, "Feelin' Satisfied"