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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!dcs.ed.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk Message-ID: <DIr9pt.A7y.0.staffin.dcs.ed.ac.uk@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] References: <30B6A790.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <30b755fe.0@xyzzy.cs.colorado.edu> <498sl3$52h@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:34:35 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1397 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9417 In article <498sl3$52h@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, David Moffett (dpm@cs.purdue.edu) wrote: > Would it be opening Pandoras Box for us non-list readers to get a one > screen summary of what caused this split? Was it a people vs people or > technical ideas vs technical ideas kind of problem? > > Please no flames, just a short summary. OpenBSD appears to be a result of Theo De Raadt's ejection from the NetBSD core team, which, in short, was a people thing, not a technical thing. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) "Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" (Snow Crash)