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From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 10 Feb 1997 10:45:59 GMT
Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit
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In article <5dmh68$ckm@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
   In article <DERAADT.97Feb8183929@zeus.theos.com>,
   Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote:
   >
   >OpenBSD doesn't `want' to be "NetBSD plus more".  Historically, that
   >was just how it was started... remember I was a NetBSD core developer
   >and hence this spin-off was a natural.  But that statement isn't
   >intended to indicate this situation came out of a _desire_ to be
   >"NetBSD plus more".

   You were quite positively *not* a NetBSD core developer when, or immediately
   before, or IIRC even in the same year that, you "spun off" OpenBSD.

   I realize that you probably weren't trying to give that impression, but just
   so's nobody mistakenly acquires it...

Huh?  Thor, I was making no comments about the timing.  However I DID
start NetBSD with 3 other people, DID co-run it for a couple years,
and I DID make serious contributions.

I have no idea why you feel it neccessary to bring up such history.
But because you do, and because people might be curious, I will point
people at the file

	http://www.theos.com/~deraadt/coremail

That file shows everything that happened (or at least all the
information I have on what happened).

This is just so that people don't end up with the wrong impression,
and so that nobody mistakenly acquires it...
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