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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!usenet.ins.cwru.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: 15 Nov 1993 05:07:19 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 40 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Nov15000719@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <DERAADT.93Nov14110240@pain.agate> <CGIB9E.7z9@aib.com> <MYCROFT.93Nov14202336@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CGInJG.8qC@aib.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: dwex@aib.com's message of Mon, 15 Nov 1993 04:38:04 GMT In article <CGInJG.8qC@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: I don't see you contributing anything to XFree86. Funny thing, that. I don't even *use* XFree86, except for testing. I care about it only as much as I want users of NetBSD to be able to use it. So far someone else has been willing to do that work, and I'm all for it; I do my share in other places. [...] and drag our name [...] You brought yourself into this. The passing mention to XFree86 hardly deserved even a glance by you, much less your ill-founded half-truths about code you clearly don't know much (if anything) about. Bully for you. I have it now. Hence, by your analogy with FreeBSD, since I have it now, and you are still hacking on it, I'm better than you, right? You're just full of non-sequiturs, eh? Perhaps SVR4's shared library implementation is currently better; perhaps not. I don't really care, as I can't get the source for any reasonable sum of money. But that, and everything else you've brought up, is hardly even relevant to the original thread. You're trying to state that some people can do certain things with your repudedly-free code, and other can't. You are quite confused. We have not, in any way, tried to prevent the FreeBSD group from getting `our' code in the same way as anyone else can. I suggest you read that statement as many times as necessary until you understand it. What we have done is state, quite clearly, that we cannot afford to support the use of sun-lamp by people not contributing to the development of NetBSD. If you find this unreasonable, then you are welcome to donate more machinery.