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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd
To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Man, you *do* pull these messages out of a time capsule, or something.

> Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> >But what it has to "gain" by not doing it is gratuitous incompatability.
> 
> I don't understand why "being compatible with NetBSD" and "having a
> COMPAT_NETBSD hack that can be turned on and off" are equivalent
> statements.


Because FreeBSD and NetBSD are not compatible by choice in the first place.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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