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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, darrend@novell.com (Darren Davis),
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) - Reply 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 16:38:55 MDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 19:00:38 -0700
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>> I have to take responsibility for the organization template copied
>> from the "FreeBSD + patchkit" days.
>
>You're taking too much credit for something you had no part in.  FreeBSD
>came about because of the technical problems of the patchkit (which were
>great and many), but the non-technical organization you had nothing to
>do with, positive or negative.

   I think it would be more accurate to say that "386BSD Interim 0.1.5" came
about because of technical problems with the patchkit. FreeBSD came about
because Bill pulled his support for "Interim 0.1.5" - claiming that 2/3rds of
the patches were bogus and he didn't want the "386BSD" name muddied.
   I don't tend to agree with Terry's analysis, either. If anything, OpenBSD
suffers even more than other *BSD's in it's elitest attitude. Just start
asking about all the great "security" fixes and you'll find that it's not
as "Open" as the name implies.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project