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Re: Debian/GNU Freebsd



On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, David Welton wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 02:56:40AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> > > > I don't think so..  The NetBSD people would have the same personal
> > > > "issues" with a GNU userspace version of their work...
> > > 
> > > Please read this before you continue.
> > > 
> > > http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail
> > > 
> > > The Open/Net BSD split goes well beyond technical issues.
> 
> > Um, as I said the reason I was told to expect direct attempts to
> > sabotage the effort is the GPL.  Most BSD people have a problem with
> > the GPL and the GNU software.  NetBSD people seem to have a problem
> > with the GPL and anything not part of 4.4BSD being part of the
> > "operating system" release.
> 
> This sounds pretty paranoid to me.  Do you have any authoritative
> sources for why these people are going to try and wreck other's work?
> That's a nasty accusation that ought to be backed up with more than "I
> was told ...."

No. The Open & Net BSD guys really hates one another. Just after Theo
forked OpenBSD off, the NetBSD guys planted 'anti-OpenBSD' code in their
CVS tree that would hang an OpenBSD kernel in the exception handler.
See the gory details on Miguel's page (near the bottom):
http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/

	Cordialement,

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