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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 17 Aug 1995 13:47:09 +0200
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Steven Grady <grady@xcf.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>The reason I run FreeBSD is that I was working with Jordan Hubbard at
>the time the NetBSD/FreeBSD split occurred.  By I suspect that particular
>reason doesn't account for more than a fraction of the FreeBSD users..
>(Hi Damian!)

As much irrelevant to the subject as your Steven's reply :), but the
reason why i've joined the FreeBSD group has been that back in that
old days, Chris Kukulies asked me to make my floppy formatter go into
their code base...  guess what, half a year later, i suddenly (and
surprisingly, from my point of view) got commit privileges, and what
should i say, meanwhile i've been invited into the core
group... career? :-)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)