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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 10 Feb 1997 02:02:32 -0500
Organization: Panix
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In article <DERAADT.97Feb8183929@zeus.theos.com>,
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote:
>
>OpenBSD doesn't `want' to be "NetBSD plus more".  Historically, that
>was just how it was started... remember I was a NetBSD core developer
>and hence this spin-off was a natural.  But that statement isn't
>intended to indicate this situation came out of a _desire_ to be
>"NetBSD plus more".

You were quite positively *not* a NetBSD core developer when, or immediately
before, or IIRC even in the same year that, you "spun off" OpenBSD.

I realize that you probably weren't trying to give that impression, but just
so's nobody mistakenly acquires it...

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                          tls@panix.COM

 Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/