On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:06:07 -0400 
 Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> It is attitudes like this that fragment the free software world and make it
> harder for all of us to make progress. There is nothing wrong with 
> having competition, or in this case having two different free OS's that
> run on a given hardware platform; people have different preferences for
> what they want in an OS, and you aren't going to be able to easily 
> convince the devotees of one OS model to switch to another. Thus the 
> important thing is *not* to slam the other side's OS, but to work together
> constructively, to offer each other advice and solutions, and to create
> an environment where *all* the free OS's are good enough that people will
> use them. If this happens, then all sides win: people who like BSD or who
> want a BSD system for research can use it, people who like Linux can use 
> it, and both OSs will be better due to cross-fertilization and shared 
> improvements. If your only goal is to flame me, to bash NetBSD/sparc,
> and to be generally obnoxious, please go somewhere else and allow us to
> proceed constructively.

Well said Aaron!

> 
> As for this specific case, yes, it is true that the le driver does not
> set the AUI/TP bit. When I wrote that part of the driver, I did not
> realize that that bit was not set automatically, as the documentation
> suggests. Since I have only one test machine, which happens to be 
> netbooted, I never saw this problem. One developer with one test machine
> cannot hope to possibly exercise all possible cases, and that is exactly
> why distributions like netbsd-current and the community that runs it exist.
> I appreciate your bug report, and will be checking in a fix as soon as
> my busy schedule clears long enough for me to look at the problem. I 
> just wish that you did not have to resort to such obnoxious and rude tactics 
> to report problems.
> 

Again well said Aaron, feel free to send me any patches to test.

Neil.
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