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To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:00:14 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:41:44 -0400
From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
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> And then what about newconfig?  To me this just adds more truth to the
> whole /. argument that *BSD promotes a closed development model.

It's a flawed argument and one that doesn't acknowledge, at least in
the case of FreeBSD, the existence of publicly accessible CVS repositories
along with the GNATS databases for non-committer submissions.

It's a more centralized development model but not necessarily a closed one.

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
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