From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 21:22:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748DE16A407 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:22:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB5643D6B for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:22:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61160291B03; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:22:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20645-01; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47168291AFE; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:22:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id BD4F35C356; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:22:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC61B5C337; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:22:03 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:22:03 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: rouk ounas In-Reply-To: <29ca6cf80609091342r664eba09u1f369d3210c14d18@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060909182107.U10669@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <1157040361.44f708e9d119d@imp3-g19.free.fr> <29ca6cf80609091342r664eba09u1f369d3210c14d18@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:22:42 -0000 On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, rouk ounas wrote: > On 9/1/06, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: >> I have a dream. >> >> A dream of unification. >> >> Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping >> incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. >> >> But when you tell yourself that it cannot be done, you don't even >> try it. >> >> It would require people to not only do it for the sake of their projects, >> but for the whole BSD people. Even those who really piss you off in >> other projects. >> >> Because someday, those projects will live on without us. We'll pass on >> like everyone. >> >> Am I alone thinking this ? > > I would disagree with that. Is not unification we need, it is unity. > > Instead of speaking about the [Net, Open, Free, DragonFly]BSD > community, we should be talking about the BSD community as a whole. > > I'm using Free, but when Open asks vendors to give driver docs, and > when Net is spiralling down, it should be a problem for all the BSDs. I couldn't have said it better! And what I'm learning with bsdstats.org is that there are more then just those four ... GNU/kFreeBSD is reporting, as is MirBSD ... main index page hasn't been updated yet ... are there any others? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664