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From: crs@beta.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean?
Date: 17 Jan 1995 16:20:59 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com> muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) writes:
= 
= 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?

But wouldn't the scheduling have been done by Usenix, as opposed to
the *BSD* folks?  If so, it was rather silly on the part of Usenix.

If, as your comment above seems (to me) to suggest, it was at the
choice of the *BSD* folks, something that I find very hard to
imagine, it is carrying competition--or whatever--too far.

= Source an binary compatability between the camps is extreamly important.

I agree that this would be a worthy objective for all the *BSD*
folks.


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Best,

Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby				"I'm the NRA!"
	  crs@lanl.gov