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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 2 Dec 1995 20:04:41 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> It seems that some of the NetBSD people rejected a person named Theo 
> De Raadt from the core development team, and that person went out and 
> created another distribution called OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/).
> So I agree with the person who called BSD a "Developer's Guild".
> It just doesn't seem that open to me when the developers of an 
> operating system kick someone out of the development environment.

NetBSD != FreeBSD

> As for the "openness" of FreeBSD development, I refer you (again) to the 
> following threads from comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
[SNIP]
> Summary:  You have to be a member of the BSD core team to be able
> to see any real changes in the source code.

I'm not a member of the core team.  I'm sitting here looking at the latest
entry in the commit logs.  And the files... what was that again?
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