From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 16:05:10 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 7B55D16A4EC for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.zanon@infinito.it) Received: from vsmtp12.tin.it (vsmtp12.tin.it [212.216.176.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B11843D6E for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d.zanon@infinito.it) Received: from [192.168.0.8] (82.56.176.159) by vsmtp12.tin.it (7.2.072.1) id 44F53D18000EE3D1; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:04:44 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <1157040361.44f708e9d119d@imp3-g19.free.fr> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <1157040361.44f708e9d119d@imp3-g19.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4166472E-4FE1-4837-8CA1-B59D9ACC0599@infinito.it> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: davide zanon Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:04:41 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:05:10 -0000 On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Miod Vallat wrote: >> >> BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel. > > This is a common misconception. > > BSD is about people pissing each other, because they don't want to > admit > that other people can have different needs, goals, or ways of > designing > code, than themselves. I'm noone to talk about this, but this is *one* of the problems that seem to emerge in every project I've heard of, and surely it affects lots of projects more than the BSDs. Everywhere there are people pissing each other because they don't understand that the Truth is never on the same side, if something called truth even exists. According to my experience as dumb user, I've never found such a helpful community as the NetBSD one, so I think that what stated is excessive and unfair. > This is why all this talking about BSD projects needing to merge is > complete > bullshit. The reason why merging is impossible or stupid has been said some million times... Different goals. It's only a positive thing that there is more than one project, also because of what you said above, although exaggerating. Do you think it would be better if everyone pursued the same things, knowing that users won't ever be a faceless mass of identical robots? > Miod davide zanon www.redmist.altervista.org