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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!idiom.com!idiom.com!not-for-mail From: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean? Date: 15 Jan 1995 01:46:48 -0800 Organization: Idiom Consulting Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3faqu8$6b1@idiom.com> References: <3enogm$5l7@fw.novatel.ca> <3f253c$es0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com> <3fagq3$839@agate.berkeley.edu> In article <3fagq3$839@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >... >You do me an injustice, sir, to assume that I'd gratutiously do something >like this. At the summer USENIX I even *rescheduled* the FreeBSD BOF >to sandwich it between the NetBSD and BSDI ones so that people who wanted >to attend all, could. The fact that all 3 parties have chosen (either >deliberately or accidently) to splat over eachother this year is most >unfortunate! It's not my style and that's not my ballgame - this year's >scheduling is purely an accident from my side of things.. > >Sigh... I will see what I can do to get the FreeBSD BOF moved. I have >no desire to compete with the other two groups, and it does our users less >good to not be able to make their own choices about which OS to use. Ooops. Well, you know what they say about ASS-U-ME-ing... I apologize. Perhaps you scheduled first? Perhaps someone external to it all guided the timings? Who knows. Thanks, -Dave