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From: Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia <ishpeck@ishpeck.net>
To: Robin Bj?rklin <robin.bjorklin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unified BSD?
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Robin  Bj?rklin wrote:
> Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four largest
> BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each and
> create a Unified BSD?

Short answer: Yes.

Diversity breeds innovation.

To unify would cost the unique features of each BSD.  It may
gain us more bug fixes but only if the diversity costs didn't
also hurt the appeal to the contributors.