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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!rees From: rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: my ears are burning Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:08:30 EST Organization: University of Michigan CITI Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1997Feb17.170830@luckey.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: luckey.citi.umich.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5437 Honey tells me you guys are talking about me. No, I never filed a PR with netbsd. I tried but couldn't figure out how. I don't remember the details, but I think there was nothing on the netbsd web page about filing a bug report. I did figure out that I wanted to use send-pr, but it didn't work (I think it wanted to use /bin/mail or sendmail or some other program that I didn't have set up) and I didn't have the time to figure it out. What impressed me about OpenBSD was that they would pick up my bug reports (sorry, they aren't PRs, and I don't know what else to call them) from the NetBSD mailing lists, improve them, and incorporate them in OpenBSD, sometimes in a matter of hours. I'm not faulting NetBSD for not doing the same. I very much appreciate all the free Unix efforts, and I wouldn't think of complaining about the service. But as a researcher, I will use the tool that best fits my needs, and for me that's OpenBSD. I can't afford to select my tools based on the personalities of the people who produced them. Happily though, I've hoisted a pint or two with people from both camps, and they all seem like fine folks to me.