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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: List of OpenBSD changes Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:25:33 -0400 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 35 Message-ID: <el2afvvutpu.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <DERAADT.96Aug8144209@zeus.theos.com> <4ufqap$44i@jan.et.byu.edu> <4uq76m$5uv@jan.et.byu.edu> <4uqg1q$dph@mn5.swip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.30 per.fogelstrom@mailbox.swipnet.se (Per Fogelström) writes: > > My choise to work with OpenBSD is not because i dislike anything. Reason is > that i like the way things are provided and the support and help i get from > Theo and the rest of the people working with it. Iv'e been pissed of by > NetBSD people, so what! I helped them with stuff they asked for anyway. What > would I gain from being rude. > > You know, one of the first thing that happened when i started to play around > with NetBSD several years ago was that i was accused of having insulted > people on the mailing list! And you know why? Because i told a story about > how i did a port of NetBSD to my homebuilt Mips R3081 board! Get It!! So, because one random person (who has, to my knowledge, never been named), who happened to be reading port-pmax, sent you that rather bizarre piece of email, you've decided to use it as an argument against the NetBSD community? Perhaps you forget, but I just reread the thread, and everyone else seems to have thought it was quite bizarre, and even defended you. I am also rather seriously disappointed that you have implied that you didn't get `help' from the NetBSD community. I believe the mailing list archives say differently. In addition, I personally created an account for you last September (very shortly after being told that you were ready to commit the `pica' port, and after you sent me passwd information), and then, even after occasional queries, we heard nothing significant about integrating the port until *much* later. I'm not sure how you came to dislike NetBSD, but certainly none of what you've said here so far seems reasonable.