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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!night.primate.wisc.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean? Date: 15 Jan 1995 06:53:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3fagq3$839@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3enogm$5l7@fw.novatel.ca> <3f1h83$hgl@newshost.lanl.gov> <3f253c$es0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com>, David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> wrote: >At the upcoming USENIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, and NetBSD are all having >BOFs (informal public meetings) and guess what? They are all scheduled >for the same time slot so it isn't possible to attend more than one. >Says a lot doesn't it? Actually, it says a lot about bizarre coincidences! I didn't have the USENIX BOF sheet when I emailed in my preference of time and day, and the fact that it's fallen at the EXACT SAME time as the other two (out of 5 days to chose from with some 4 slots per day!) strikes me as more than a bit coincidental. 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. Jordan