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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!despina.neptune.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Dec 1995 23:22:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4a7sv2$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49smvs$8gd@josie.abo.fi> <DJ2JEp.7Ky@nntpa.cb.att.com> <4a2oii$m7h@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29594 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9982 comp.unix.advocacy:11866 bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) writes: > Hmm..Where do you get "King" and "Exclusive" access from that statement? > Are you saying that if I fixed person A's XYZ driver that I could submit > the patch to FreeBSD and avoid person A?? Yes, if there's a good reason (e.g. the original developer is no longer available for some reason). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)