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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 partitioning
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References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:52:07 GMT
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In article <277do6$4hj@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>
>NOTE:  This is a repost of message <276kq0$2u9@fw.novatel.ca> (T.P.)
>
>James Tsillas (jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu) wrote:
>
>: Having two very similar (if not three) operating systems seems to me
>: like a incredible waste of personal resource and will give rise to much
>: duplicate (triplicate?) work for what appear to be simply religious
>: reasons.
>: There are no good reasons that I can see for keeping the efforts
>: separate. The arguments that we need an experimental release of the OS
>
>I don't understand what all the whining is about... I see nothing wrong
>with a little bit of parallelism... After all; where would the world be

We do have a very strong competition and it is called Linux. 
If we wish to win against linux, we are going to need everything
that we got plus a bit more like in terms of marketing to spread
the *bsd word around.

	Amancio
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