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From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess)
Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386
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Date: 24 Jun 93 23:35:15 GMT
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I have come to realise that the struggle over {386bsd, BSD/386, NetBSD, ...,
someotherfuckingBSD, .... } is just a microcosm of the UNIX world as a whole.
For chrissake, when a bunch of laid-back hackers starts getting territorial,
it's no wonder that there are umpteen million variants of commercial UNIXes
out there, each incompatible in some frustrating way with the next. If
Bill, Chris, and [insert your favorite kernel-hacker here] can't get along,
why is anyone surprised when Sun, IBM, HP, and the rest of the crew are at
each others' throats?
"Can't we all just get along?"
COSE is a small (*small*, mind you) step in the right direction, but it's
way too late.
I'm sure that somewhere in the bowels of Bell Labs there's a group of
very frustrated people who have decided they're going to have to save the
world all over again....
Plan9/386 anyone?
-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu