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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Date: 8 Jan 1995 00:27:00 -0600 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3eo0jk$1lr6@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <tporczykD1vI9u.Cuo@netcom.com> <3edq1l$otn@agate.berkeley.edu> <3eg0i7$j2u@fw.novatel.ca> <3eijl6$sq6@agate.berkeley.edu> <3enogm$5l7@fw.novatel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger1-t.ocs.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have to stop lurking for this one. My personal experience with Mr. Hubbard and WC in general has been good. WC provides a needed service and they are polite to boot. I never had problems dealing with them when I subscribed to the Hobbes OS/2 cdrom and on the 2 ocasions I dealt with Mr. Hubbard he was most helpfull. The first time I talked to him was on IRC (imagine that) I had just installed 1.1 and had never setup a unix system before. (xenix doesn't count) He answered my questions and showed off the PCMCIA drivers for his laptop's network card. (even let me telnet in if I remember.) The second time I mailed him with a question about a BT445s and he answered within a day. I can understand this dry humor because I am sure he has to deal with countless people complaining about how "linux supports my pitifull hardware why doesn't FreeBSD". Remember your roots guys. Unix was written by hackers and people who weren't completely anal. Take a joke. As to the Infomagic vs. Walnut Creek. Buy which ever one makes you happy. There, I have said my piece and will go back to lurking. Oh, btw? Why would we want NetBSD and FreeBSD merging? They have two differnent goals... Herb Peyerl (hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca) wrote: : Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : : Oh, you're just still upset because of that Burger King ad campaign : : where they encouraged you to "Spot Herb and win a free medium size Pepsi." : : That was *years* ago, can't you just drop it? :-) : The above response from Jordan, while it can only be viewed as a : childish outburst, is to me a clear illustration of the differing : attitudes and levels of emotional maturity that keep FreeBSD and : NetBSD from merging. : While I do not represent NetBSD, I sympathize with them in not wanting : to pursue a greater level of cooperation with FreeBSD. I view Jordans : response akin to "biting the hand that feeds". : Is this how FreeBSD and Walnut Creek represent themselves to *all* their : contributors? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew N. Dodd Department of Computer Science mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu Louisiana State University