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From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
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To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
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Subject: Re: GNU/FreeBSD (was: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this 
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> "Person, Roderick" wrote:

> fact I bought Debian 2.1 a month or so before swithing to FBSD and I
> see that the still on 2.2, guess that's the price of a world wide
> developement staff.

That's not the price of a world wide staff. That's the price of direct
democracy. Imagine how stagnant FreeBSD would become if every
contributor, regardless of commit priviledges, had an equal vote in
every decision.

David

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