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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality?
Date: 21 Sep 1994 10:21:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <35istg$cod@ns.mcs.kent.edu>,
Greg Delozier <delozier@mcs.kent.edu> wrote:
>(in reference to the DOOM port to Linux)
>
>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?  

I can only say "I sincerely hope not."

>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?

No, and nothing.

					Jordan