netbsd-users: Re: The future of NetBSD

Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
From: Jack J. Woehr <jwoehr@absolute-performance.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/31/2006 09:15:09
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On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance.

> As one of the 4 originators of NetBSD, I am in a fairly unique  
> position.

> [I'm CCing this to FreeBSD and OpenBSD lists in order to share it with
> the wider *BSD community, not to start a flame war.  I hope that  
> people
> reading it have the tact to be respectful of their peers, and consider
> how some of these issues may apply to them as well.]

Charles, obviously the Fates intend you to bring all that expertise
over to OpenBSD and enrich the community which produces that Best
of the BSD's with your experience, counsel and coding skills!

---
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527



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