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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive?
Date: 3 Jun 1997 23:24:50 -0700
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In article <EB670F.Frx@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>...but given that NetBSD then split again in most
>acrimonious circumstances (to produce OpenBSD) it seems that the
>NetBSD people are terminally factional.

Not really. It was only one developer who left, and from my experience
with him (before I was invited to be a NetBSD developer, or even
knew anyone on the NetBSD team), he's extremely difficult to work
with.

cjs
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