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From: rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: my ears are burning
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:08:30 EST
Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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Honey tells me you guys are talking about me.

No, I never filed a PR with netbsd.  I tried but couldn't figure out how.  I
don't remember the details, but I think there was nothing on the netbsd web
page about filing a bug report.  I did figure out that I wanted to use
send-pr, but it didn't work (I think it wanted to use /bin/mail or sendmail
or some other program that I didn't have set up) and I didn't have the time
to figure it out.

What impressed me about OpenBSD was that they would pick up my bug reports
(sorry, they aren't PRs, and I don't know what else to call them) from the
NetBSD mailing lists, improve them, and incorporate them in OpenBSD,
sometimes in a matter of hours.

I'm not faulting NetBSD for not doing the same.  I very much appreciate all
the free Unix efforts, and I wouldn't think of complaining about the
service.  But as a researcher, I will use the tool that best fits my needs,
and for me that's OpenBSD.  I can't afford to select my tools based on the
personalities of the people who produced them.  Happily though, I've hoisted
a pint or two with people from both camps, and they all seem like fine folks
to me.