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From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: 8 Dec 1995 21:11:50 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) writes:
: 
: > Hmm..Where do you get "King" and "Exclusive" access from that statement?
: > Are you saying that if I fixed person A's XYZ driver that I could submit
: > the patch to FreeBSD and avoid person A??
: 
: Yes, if there's a good reason (e.g. the original developer is no
: longer available for some reason).

In that case you take over the project.=)  We were talking about 
drivers that currently being managed like ext2fs, etc.

If there is no developer that is a different story.