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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
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Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
References: <JKH.93Nov14235043@whisker.lotus.ie> <2c84gv$pom@fw.novatel.ca> <2c8cn5$oam@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 17:52:26 GMT
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In article <2c8cn5$oam@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>In article <2c84gv$pom@fw.novatel.ca>, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca> wrote:
>>involved in one of the *BSD's... Would you people just SHUT UP and take it
>>to E-mail? I've been watching this most of the night and become more
>>humiliated with every post.
>>I'm inches away from installing Linux and completely throwing away *any*
>>reference to ANY of the *bsd's on my disks...
>
>Just ignore it, people will eventually quiet down.  Linux went through
>the same kinds of growing pains, so it's not anything new.  It is kind
>of humorous though, just lay back, and watch both sides make buttheads
>of themselves.
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^

	Or is is Beavises??  Perhaps both should be renamed until this dies
down - one to BeavisBSD and the other to ButtheadBSD :-).  If nothing else, a
temporary name change of this sort would provide an incentive for the two camps
to stop fighting with each other.

-Eric

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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."