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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:30:55 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net, obrien@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MS & Linux duopoly
Message-ID:  <19990909073055.J64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <199909090317.XAA02089@bellsouth.net>
References:  <199909090056.RAA07813@usr02.primenet.com> <199909090317.XAA02089@bellsouth.net>

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* W Gerald Hicks (wghicks@bellsouth.net) [990909 07:14]:
>> One response to this is to ensure that -ports patch files get
>> integrated (not just emailed or contributed) back to the project
>> maintainers.

Been there, tried that.

Sometimes you do it against deaf man's ears. But I'll just be more
of a hardhead than they are now shall I? =)

>To be fair, a few committers *are* going the extra mile for these
>efforts (David Obrien probably deserves special recognition here).

Indeed. David has done tremendous things.

[Gerald/David: The Dragon book plus the Unix Prog Env book are in my
 possession now =) Just to let you know]

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
A frightened mental vortex we will be, a Sun we seek, a Sun we flee...


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