Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 13:39:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jolitz book cancelled? Message-ID: <19980704133943.Z358@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807040357.UAA09452@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 08:57:56PM -0700 References: <19980704093453.U358@freebie.lemis.com> <199807040357.UAA09452@implode.root.com>
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On Friday, 3 July 1998 at 20:57:56 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>> Yes, it was a port of 4.3BSD Net/2 to the 80386 (called >>> 386BSD). >> >> Sure. This is the ancestor of FreeBSD. FreeBSD (and NetBSD) grew out >> of personality conflicts with Bill Jolitz. > > I'd say that is stretching the truth just a bit too much. Well, I did say that I wasn't the best person to ask, but I think you're misinterpreting my statement. > You might be able to argue that being the case with NetBSD (cgd's > arguments with Bill being well known and public), but "personality" > conflicts with Bill were certainly not what FreeBSD grew out of. In > fact, we gave Bill every last chance to lead and he chose not to, > but we certainly didn't form in spite of him or due to any argument > with him. My understanding was that you gave him every chance to fix bugs and improve the product, including supplying the bug fixes, but he chose not to. As a result, and somewhat reluctantly if I recall, you decided that the only way to get past the patch kit was to start up your own distribution. How am I doing? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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