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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4994 comp.os.386bsd.misc:952 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!think.com!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (One person's opinion) Date: 12 Sep 1993 01:37:49 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 12 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Sep11213749@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <CD3JII.F5w.1@cs.cmu.edu> <26p8ul$1eb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 10 Sep 1993 07:04:53 GMT In article <26p8ul$1eb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: But, if I were to join NetBSD today, I (have been told) that I am to keep my grubby little fingers out of the kernel. This is a non-sequitur. What you're referring to is the strawman proposal for merging, not joining the NetBSD group outright. If your memory isn't too rusty, you'll recall that I disagreed with that part, too. (In fact, it's the primary reason why I rejected the proposal.)