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s/discovering/committing to/

Carmack has been aware of and actively involved in UNIX systems for a long time now. This isn't a recent discovery. However it has been recently noticed that he's committing to OpenBSD.

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Contributing to OpenBSD, not committing. He is not a committer.. yet.

Apologies, I hadn't realised there were a distinction. What's the difference?

I guess it's about having a direct commit access to their CVS tree.

Precisely. OpenBSD developers have committed John's diffs.

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