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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Patchkit Patches 00077 through 00082 Now Available
In-Reply-To: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au's message of Mon, 15 Feb 1993 23:45:13 GMT
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In article <cproto.729819913@marsh> cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes:
   No offense to Nathan, but I'm competent enough to verify submitted
   patches myself. I appreciate his work and its certainly valuable to
   the majority of 386bsd users. But there are still a large number of 
   people out there who don't want to blindly apply his "unofficial-
   official" patches. I'm collecting posted patches myself and apply
   them if needed after verifying that they don't break anything else.

   So please stop this somewhat arrogant and god like behaviour and
   don't withhold valuable work done by others (i.e. the signal 6 fix).

There is no excuse for belittleing Nate like this. - He doesn't
deserve it.  He has been very generous with his time and effort.

You are trying to obligate him to collect patches and distribute the
patchkit on your own terms.  That's not really fair is it?

Rich