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From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD hides security fixes (and blindly integrates code)
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:28:07 -0500
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honey@citi.umich.edu (peter honeyman) writes:

> i am waiting to hear someone from the netbsd camp "fess up" to this 
> obvious, transparent attempt to sabotage openbsd.

Case in point that OpenBSD blindly takes in code:  Look at the CDDA
modifications they made to the sd.c scsi disk driver.  Gee, aren't
the flags supposed to be unique values?

They took the NetBSD PR and _blindly_ applied it, with _no_ testing
whatsoever.

That is easily verifiable.  And what do you know, even proves a point.

--Michael