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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Leadership
Message-ID: <almC64FIB.4qJ@netcom.com>
Keywords: netbsd, 386bsd and beyond
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References: <C5yH0F.Hn6@ns1.nodak.edu> <hastyC5z10p.Buo@netcom.com> <1993Apr26.184407.18453@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 02:42:11 GMT
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In article <1993Apr26.184407.18453@zip.eecs.umich.edu> khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) writes:
>In article <hastyC5z10p.Buo@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty
>Jr) writes:
>|> What is interesting is that the Unix culture keeps getting fragmented and
>|> diluted after so many years. Oh, well...
>|> 
>...Just like the UNIX filesystem. Looks like the developers have learned
>something from their software :-)
>
>Is this BSD split due to a power struggle between 2 Berkeley professors,
>to see who gets a bigger chunk of research funds, whereas the rest of
>the world is blindly switching to whoever brings out the latest release?
>Both 386BSD and netbsd are from Berkeley, right?

There is no animosity between the NetBSD and the 386BSD folk.
On the contrary, several persons are in both camps (including Rodney
Grimes, the 386BSD patch kit developer).

The split is simply to allow alternative lines of development.  Both
sides have ambitious goals and capable people pursuing them.

So far, changes have been made in such a way that support for one
system does not exclude support for the other.  Hopefully this will
continue.

As for research funds, there are none.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>