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From: Corey Brenner <brenner@umr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD hides security fixes (and blindly integrates code)
Date: 19 Feb 1997 00:11:46 GMT
Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University
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Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> wrote:
: honey@citi.umich.edu (peter honeyman) writes:
: > i am waiting to hear someone from the netbsd camp "fess up" to this
: > obvious, transparent attempt to sabotage openbsd.
: Case in point that OpenBSD blindly takes in code: Look at the CDDA
: modifications they made to the sd.c scsi disk driver. Gee, aren't
: the flags supposed to be unique values?
: They took the NetBSD PR and _blindly_ applied it, with _no_ testing
: whatsoever.
: That is easily verifiable. And what do you know, even proves a point.
Jeez... it's no wonder Linux is taking such a big piece of the free UN*X
market. Their developers aren't always bickering and pissing and moaning
about the latest flaws in brand XYZ's distribution. I was thinking of
looking at NetBSD and OpenBSD for some old sun equipment. With all this
sh*t going on, I think I'll just wait for the Linux port.
--
Corey D. Brenner -- (brenner@umr.edu, brenner@acm.cs.umr.edu)
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