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From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?!
Date: 3 Mar 1995 20:44:21 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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> You guys at *BSD _had_ a great opportunity to see a BSD running on the 
> world's zillion Intel-based PCs. But your infighting and refusal to merge
> has seen people go to the anarchic linux platform. 

Gee, it's not like the USL lawsuit wasn't also a factor in delaying
*BSD relative to Linux...

The arguments about NetBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux are largely
irrelevant.  Friendly competition between them isn't necessarily a bad
thing, because it encourages each of them to improve their work.  And
as far as I can tell, a nontrivial amount of code and/or ideas has
been borrowed from each of them to help the others.  So the groups do
collaborate in some sense.

The worst thing that could happen is for everyone to waste their time
trying to assert which one is better.  All this does is to make it
harder for the groups to work together, even in those cases where
doing so would be compatible with their mutual goals.

Long live Linux!  
Long live FreeBSD! 
Long live NetBSD!

I'd much rather have to choose between these three than be stuck with
any vendor operating system.

--
Keith Moore                              http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/
Computer Science Department / University of Tennessee at Knoxville
107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301
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