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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!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eff!news.kei.com!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 19:26:29 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2c60p5$p6v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <CGHs3y.Au2@kithrup.com> <CGD.93Nov14100033@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quip.eecs.umich.edu In article <CGHv40.BKF@kithrup.com>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> wrote: >Now: I've not seen any of the freebsd people publicly claim that freebsd >is "better." I have seen netbsd folks, including yourself, say why netbsd >is "better," and, either say directly or imply, what losers the freebsd >folks are. The "losers" comment aside, perhaps there's a good reason for this. >The main answer that the freebsd folks gave to "which is better" used to be... >neither, really, we share a lot of code. Guess they'll have to change that Well, why doesn't someone say why freebsd is better? If it's worse, or at best equal, why take resources (users, programmers, etc.) from netbsd? *I'm not saying this is the case*, but if one system is better than the other, it's hardly fair to claim otherwise, confusing the issue for people deciding on which system to use. >Am I the only one who sees similarities between this and the jolitzes? If the "jolitzes" had allowed access to their code in a timely manner (ala netbsd's "current" release, and freebsd's frequent releases) netbsd and freebsd probably wouldn't exist (IMHO). -Dan