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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean? Date: 14 Jan 1995 06:32:53 -0600 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3f8g9l$lnc@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> References: <3f253c$es0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3f41piINNq16@python.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3f49s8$k60@dagny.galt.com> <3f4ppkINN1hl@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu> <D2CzDp.Bp3@space.physics.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger1-t.ocs.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Larry Granroth (ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu) wrote: : mark anthony kolesar (kolesar@cis.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : : I like the name somebody else mentioned, OpenBSD. : Aaah! "Open (TM)" is used in the computer industry rather like "People's" : is used in naming governments. But I loke it! It has a nifty ring to it. (no matter that things like OpenVMS usually aren't) : I don't advocate a merger (there are many benefits to two independent : groups) but it would be nice if user application binary compatibility : were preserved. Think of it... The one true OS. Besides, people wouldn't have to support __NetBSD__ or __FreeBSD__. There would be ONE and I wouldn't be bothered when some program has support for one or the other. Not that fiddling with make files isn't fun but... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew N. Dodd Department of Computer Science mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu Louisiana State University