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From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.magnus.and.ketil
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 9 Apr 1994 15:09:58 -0400
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lilo@slip-1-5 (lilo) writes:

>On 9 Apr 1994 01:36:53 GMT, Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
>> In article <MAGNUS.94Apr4201634@haukugle.ii.uib.no> magnus@ii.uib.no writes:
>> ]Who needs a core team?

>> Anyone who wanted a smooth transition instead of a 16 month power struggle
>> if the lead developer dropped out.

>Well, it hasn't happened (no lead developer dropping out, certainly no
>16-month power struggles when *anyone* dropped out), so I think the whole
>theory is on shaky ground.

Oh.  I thought Terry was talking about the *BSD experience when the 
Jolitzes disappeared.  You think he was prophesying for Linux?  How
ironic.

Maybe Terry can clarify here.  Maybe he was talking about both.

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