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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:48 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>,
        Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>
Cc: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@internetpaper.com>, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG,
        FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>,
        advocacy@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
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On Friday, 27 November 1998 at  0:49:30 -0500, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote:
>
>> 	So, again, who would like to participate on such a project,
>> scanctioned by a *BSD core team, or not?  The michanics of the process are
>> fairly straight forward, but they are time intensive.
>
> 	Just an addendum to my previous message.  If you think you would
> be interested in helping on such a task, send me your address off-line.
> I'll save them.
>
> 	If there is suficcient interest/manpower to make it more than a
> one-man show, I'll set up a 3-way CVS mirror at UVa or maybe a local ISP.
> We can tag an initial starting point and start merging into one of the
> three trees.  If this bears fruit we can then re-merge any recent changes
> and make it a new baseline for userland.  (Yes, there is undoubtedly a lot
> more to consider, but it's a start.)
>
> 	I think minimally, there would need to be two people from each
> group.  I am best counted as a FreeBSD'er.  Are there five others?

Count me out.  I don't think this is a worthwhile effort.  Discuss
things, maintain more communication, try to keep things pointing in
the direction, sure.  But your efforts aren't going to give us a
unified userland: they're more likely to create a fourth version.

Greg
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