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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!virtech!dwex From: dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Message-ID: <CGJD8M.CxL@aib.com> Organization: AIB Software, Inc. References: <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <CGIAFq.7tL@aib.com> <DERAADT.93Nov14232859@sun-lamp.agate> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 13:53:09 GMT Lines: 52 In article <DERAADT.93Nov14232859@sun-lamp.agate> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >In article <CGIAFq.7tL@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: > In article <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > >The fact that, for the most part, the FreeBSD "developers" used their > >accounts on sun-lamp *only* for the purpose of snarfing revisions of > >our code and migrating it to FreeBSD revolted me, and it still does. > >You can't call it "development" if you don't have a coherent understanding > >of what's going on. That's exactly what i meant about the shared > >libraries. > > Why does this upset you? If you make your code available to people and > say "Hey, come play with our neat new stuff", you have no right whatsoever > to get all up-in-arms if people actuall DO. If you don't want it released > until it's done, then don't release it. Works for XFree86. > >David, I look forward to the day that a ``XFree86-current'' is sup'able >nightly from some machine. Until then you cannot compare XFree86's >open-ness with how open NetBSD is being. (I wonder how many active >NetBSD-current users there are...) We don't have an XFree86-current, and never will. Not one that is publically-accessible. The point is that you do, and now you're objecting to FreeBSD using it. > > [regarding Xfree86] > We don't allow early release of stuff, because we want to release > it when we're ready. > >Guess what! That's exactly what we are trying to stop here! > >The problem is that FreeBSD people have been taking early releases of >NetBSD ``stuff''. > >We want to release the code when we are ready, not when FreeBSD people >feel it's time for them to ship it on a CD. Thanks for explaining that >XFree86 also doesn't want unreleased code distributed. > Then stop NetBSD-current. -- 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"