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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!ceylon!genesis!steve2 From: steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Gerakines) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: An offer to the NetBSD and FreeBSD teams: the ???BSD Peace Prize. Message-ID: <CGMDGJ.F16@genesis.nred.ma.us> Date: 17 Nov 93 04:50:42 GMT References: <SOMMERFELD.93Nov14162204@snarfblatt.apollo.hp.com> Organization: Genesis Public Access Unix +1 508 664 0149 Lines: 31 >Bill Sommerfeld says: >I will pay $250.00, to be split evenly between the NetBSD and FreeBSD >teams to divide as they see fit, if we go for two months on >comp.os.386bsd.* without members of either team publishing negative, >disparaging, or false remarks about each other or each other's >products. >[...] >This offer is void if none of the conditions have been met by one year >from the date of this posting; at that point I'll just go out and buy >BSDI.. Why wait; get your order in early. :-) Seriously though, could someone please start a discussion for a comp.os.386bsd.advocacy newsgroup. I'd do it myself but I'm not extremely familiar with the process and someone directly on the net could probably better handle it. While I think there are tough issues to be resolved between both groups, doing it in the current comp.os.386bsd.* groups does not seem very appropriate to me. There's no guarantee that arguments would be contained in the advocacy newsgroup, but at least there would be an alternative place to post such issues. I'm sure I'm not the only one that really has no interest in weeding through all the petty bickering going on. It can only be discrediting to both camps. Thanks, - Steve steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us