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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: high-speed slip/ppp reliability Date: 20 Feb 1994 23:38:51 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Feb20233852@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <1994Feb18.172307.17380@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com> <MYCROFT.94Feb20112253@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 20 Feb 1994 16:22:53 GMT In article <MYCROFT.94Feb20112253@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: [I apologize if the following sounds like a flame, but people ask about sio, and I feel that a concrete an answer is required. This is how I see it.] I wish you'd stop feeling so compelled to comment on FreeBSD, Charles. I don't post long diatribles here detailing what's wrong or right with NetBSD (not that I even care, but..) and I'm quite sure you and a number of others in the NetBSD camp would rightfully go ballistic if I did. Your opinions are intolerably biased, you're on record as having a generally negative attitude towards _anything_ in FreeBSD (I have searched long and hard through my mail archives and cannot find so much as ONE positive or even vaguely neutral thing you've said about FreeBSD _ever!_) and at this point your credibility rating in the "unbiased journalism" department is pretty well shot. One could also cynically conclude that FreeBSD has nothing to recommend it, but I've received enough positive feedback from people who feel very strongly otherwise that I'd be more inclined to think it's YOU, Charles. So let's drop this pretense of "battling operating system features"; that's not what it's about and everybody knows it. It's battling personalities, and I for one am getting pretty tired of seeing your rabidly anti-FreeBSD rhetoric posted under the guise of "technical critiques" to this and other comp.os.386bsd.* groups. Why can't you just leave us alone? If you truly despise us so much, then a simple NO COMMENT indicating our status as beneath your contempt would express your feelings quite adequately and spare the rest of the net this ridiculous and unending exchange of FreeBSD vs NetBSD shell fire. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.