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From: root@oosten.IAEhv.nl (Peter Joosten)
Subject: Re: Trouble with floppy tape drive controller
Organization: At Home Inc., The Netherlands
Message-ID: <DLzw4q.17M@oosten.IAEhv.nl>
References: <DLsqnt.v5@oosten.iaehv.nl> <4ee8ud$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:00:26 GMT
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In article <4ee8ud$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>root@oosten.IAEhv.nl (Peter Joosten) writes:
>
>> I have read an article in this newsgroup, about exact the same problem.
>> There was also a reply to this article, saying that someone (of the
>> core team ?) was working at the tape driver. 
>
>Don't blame the core team for everything.  We are incidentally also
>doing technical work, but that's mostly not the purpose of the core
>team.  (The purpose is rather to provide the required organizational
>structure to keep the project running.)  OTOH, the number of people
>actively contributing to FreeBSD is much bigger.
>
Personally, I can't see anything offending in my words quoted above.
If I did, I must apologize. It was not my intention to blame anyone.
I appreciate the work of the people contributing to the FreeBSD system.
I am not much of a systems programmer myself, so I just wondered
if someone could help.

>I notice that people are often confusing this...
>
I did too.

Greetings,

Peter Joosten
peterj@IAEhv.nl