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From: oly@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Oliver Oberdorf)
Subject: Re: followup from censored port-i386@Netbsd.ORG
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Sender: oly@russ (Oliver Oberdorf)
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:52:11 GMT
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For what it's worth, I (who do not run either Open or Net) read
the coremail archive many months ago and just verified that it
is at least very nearly the same.  This either means that he has
restored it to its former glory or that the hacked version wasn't
very.

Maybe some other people didn't draw Theo's conclusions.  I thought
he had a good point.  I'm not saying he is/isn't a jerk - I don't
know him.  I do think he was treated unfairly, though it may have
been unintentional, by the core group.

From Theo's potentially biased archive, I think he was snowed as
far as open discussion in this sort of forum goes.  I'm glad to
see his "followup" post in the group.

Anyway, I think others who are interested will check Theo's archive
and draw their own conclusions.  It really isn't relevant to the
OpenBSD/NetBSD comparison.  It may be some of the reasons for the
differences the two have, but not directly relevant to this group.

-- 

Oly