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From: jtsilla@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0e] Kernel's bss has grown up
In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of Mon, 8 Nov 1993 02: 23:58 GMT
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In article <hastyCG5Inz.C66@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

   Hi guys,

   This kind of bashing back and forth does not help either one of your
   respective group. If you want to win over your opponent,  deploy 
   key technology and leverage of it. For instance, loadable modules,
   it would be cool to have an auto configuration tool to exploit 
   this feature. 

Right on with the first comment! For users of these OS's (people like me
who depend on them for their daily work) it's kind of scary to see this
sort of things. Makes me want to go out and shell out money for SCO :-(
(no, I'm not THAT scared!).

How about working together on coming up with an even better buffering
scheme or perhaps do away with the buffer scheme altogether and
implement a memory mapped fs like I have on my Sun (please don't respond
with "you have the source go ahead and do it", all I'm asking is for
what are obviously two talented programmers to put their heads together
rather than against each other).

Take the XFree86 project as an example of a free software project which
started out as separate efforts but (through the participation of some
dedicated person) merged and went on to better things. Do you think that
project didn't have competition? It did, but it was healthy and the
result was a stronger piece of software.

	[Some things deleted]

regards,
-Jim.


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