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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:37:17 -0500
From:      Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        tech-kern@netbsd.org, jdc@nterprise.net, arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <20030204153717.GB13622@endersgame.net>
In-Reply-To: <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030124184914.E7F1C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <1044332953.4362.65.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com> <200302040528.AAA01316@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:00:48PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
<snip
> This is actually incorrect.  At one point in time, the email
> address of the driver authors was printed out in boot messsages,
> under Linux.  They had a "flag day" in which Linus removed all
> the printf's.  This flag day was actually commercially motivated.

Some (many?) Linux drivers still print out the e-mail addresses of the author.
I base this claim on the dmesg from a 2.4.something/alpha system I saw the other
day.

<snip>

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