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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 18:36:31 -0800
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Nick Kralevich wrote:
> If you reread the articles I posted, you'll find that
> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer), a member of the
> "BSD User Group Hamburg", was complaining about lack of access to the
> changes in FreeBSD.  If a BSD user group member is complaining about
> lack of access, can you imagine a common joe like you or I getting
> access to it?

This is simply ridiculous.

Read Julian Elischer's posting.  Do you see that *current up to the
hour* sources are available to all, via both SUP (for the network
endowed) and CTM (for the email-only)?  We also make change log
information available on the mailing lists, to which anyone can
subscribe, and the *one* little thing that people are flapping about so
much here is CVS repository access, something that's not even AVAILABLE
for Linux!  There's no central repository available for Slacware or Red
Hat, and most of those folks don't even USE source code control!

So forgive me if it strikes me as more than a little unfair to be
assailed as not being "open" enough because whereas Linux provides you
with a box of cake mix and a fork, we only provide the cake, the icing,
the candles but *no chocolate sprinkles*!  Gawd, we should all be shot
or something! :-)
-- 
						Jordan