From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 5:42:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.191.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBDE158A0 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:42:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA80648; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:42:36 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:42:36 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: chuck Cc: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many BSDs? In-Reply-To: <19991130015905.A17153@yerkes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, chuck wrote: > At 08:27 AM 11/30/1999 +0100, Martin Horcicka wrote: > >the thing I've never understood is why you are developing three BSD > > "You." The great BSD central commitee? > >systems separately - well, they are not too separate because if one > >system implements a thing the other two will probably port it. > > > >Wouldn't it be better to join the projects together and this way to more > >effectively use your time, skills and energy? > > > >Please, don't lapidate me - I'd just like to know the reasons. > > > >Martin > > > >P.S. I'm not member of this lists, so please answer directly to me. > > > >Sorry for cross-list message. > > Well, there is one Windows. Monopolistic, no innovation, etc. > > There are about 12 leading Unixes. They each have different > features and strengths. There are 3 BSD OpenSource Unix-alikes > and I don't know how many Linux distributions, also Open Source. Last number I heard for "# of Linux distributions" was >70...I think some guys dog did one or something silly like that *shrug* Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message