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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Date: 14 Nov 1993 07:52:38 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2c4o46$j3j@zip.eecs.umich.edu> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: quip.eecs.umich.edu In article <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.lotus.ie> wrote: > >Despite various accusations and counter-accusations recently levied in >some of the comp.os.386bsd.* newsgroups, both operating systems have >reached the point where they are both very useful (and relatively >stable) development platforms for the Intel architecture, and no one >would be wrong in chosing either of the two offerings. If they're so irreconcilable it certainly seems like someone would be wrong in choosing one over the other (for a specific purpose). >To answer the next question: Conversations on this matter to date >have been, of necessity, constrained to private email due to the fact >that the situation has always been somewhat volatile, and public statements >concerning the inner workings of the merge negotiations while they were >in progress would have made them even more difficult. Now that they're no longer in progress, let's hear the dirt :-/ Once again, it seems like irreconcilable differences are probably important differences. An enumeration of the differences should be helpful to people deciding which system to use. >We also hope that this statement will help put an end to some of the >unfortunate (and wholly unnecessary) public bickering between the Hardly unnecessary. Now that the groups are officially competing(...), let's hear from those who know, what exactly is better about their system and what's wrong with the other system. >two groups. We're two groups, providing BSD technology to the world >at large for free and at considerably cost to ourselves in terms of >time and energy, so the last thing we need is the ball-and chain of Oh, Boo Hoo. Nobody is forcing you to work on it. I think it's safe to say that everyone appreciates the contributions of people such as [bl]jolitz, julian, cgd (well, maybe not jmonroy :), nate, terry, and _many_ others. If you're not having fun and/or profiting (fame, fortune, resume, research, ego, etc.) by working on *BSD, then *stop*. >This is all about free software, after all, and should not be about >ideological divisions or matters of personal ego. Hopefully responses to this post will demonstrate that it's *not* all about ego. -Dan