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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 10:45:10 GMT
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tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) wrote:

> I *don't* share it.  I like the FreeBSD people -- which I think is a
> very common sentiment among the NetBSD developers;  [...]
>   I'd be
> surprised if the FreeBSD developers who'e actualy met us (recall,
> there are a *lot* more FreeBSD devlopers, because we run our
> projects very differently) didn't say just about the same thing I
> just did here.

Well, even if we never met (it's not so easy since already the members
of the FreeBSD core team come from three continents, let alone the 80+
active developers), i basically agree.  And as this followup shows, we
also occasionally mutually track the other camp's mailinglists and
newsgroups.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j