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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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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.