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From: mack23@ece.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: OpenBSD hides security fixes (and blindly integrates code)
Date: 17 Feb 1997 15:44:40 GMT
Organization: EE/CS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
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In article <5e8pib$k2c@panix2.panix.com>,
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
>In article <5e8kp0$lgo@news.pacifier.com>,
>Jason Downs <downsj@threadway.teeny.org> wrote:
>>]Did I say that?  No, I didn't say that.  I suggest you stop making things like
>>]that up, lest you discredit yourself further.
>>
>>Hey, I have an idea.  Why don't you and the rest of the NetBSD cabal (to use
>>peter's term) start actually even attempting to respond with some well
>>thought out argumentation?  I think I've lost count of the number of times
>
>Because contrary to your evident delusion, nobody's obliged to accept your
>world-view, to do exactly what you say -- or what you want -- or to pretend
>that they said "X" when in fact they didn't, just to make it convenient for
>you to continue with this masturbatory "argumentation".


Hey guys, much as I'm sure we all love OS wars, this is getting
uninformative.  Take it to e-mail, please.

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