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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v FreeBSD Which?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 08:31:14 -0500
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD's ease partially comes from the fact that indeed there exists
> > only one distribution. The core team that develops and maintains
> > FreeBSD ...
> 
> Well, to prevent miscomprehension: that's _all developers_, not just
> the core team.  The core team is mainly there for ``political''
> decisions etc.  There are currently more than 70 or 80 active
> developers (committers), and quite a number of other contributors.
> 
I'd like to chime in and say that those 70 or so developers
have the authorization to make changes directly into the
offical CVS tree.  We also have lots of additional
developers and contributors.

John