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From: delozier@mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality?
Date: 19 Sep 1994 02:26:56 GMT
Organization: Kent State University
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(in reference to the DOOM port to Linux)

michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>
>The fact that they played favoritism to the Linux
>whiners, simply because there are so much more of them

This is the most amazing thing I've read in ages. Does this
guy speak for, or have the respect of, the BSD community? Is
this kind of hostility and disrespect common?  

Does asking (successfully) for a port of someone's software count as 
'whining'?  What, exactly, has the Linux community done to deserve
this name-calling ire?

-greg
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Greg DeLozier