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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!zuul.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 2 Dec 1995 20:04:41 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 24 Message-ID: <49qbgp$etc@zuul.nmti.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29807 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10094 comp.unix.advocacy:11954 comp.unix.misc:19956 In article <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > It seems that some of the NetBSD people rejected a person named Theo > De Raadt from the core development team, and that person went out and > created another distribution called OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/). > So I agree with the person who called BSD a "Developer's Guild". > It just doesn't seem that open to me when the developers of an > operating system kick someone out of the development environment. NetBSD != FreeBSD > As for the "openness" of FreeBSD development, I refer you (again) to the > following threads from comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: [SNIP] > Summary: You have to be a member of the BSD core team to be able > to see any real changes in the source code. I'm not a member of the core team. I'm sitting here looking at the latest entry in the commit logs. And the files... what was that again? -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them