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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199609220759.AAA03307@root.com> David Greenman writes:
:    We tried it already and all of the people involved were too busy just
: developing our respective systems and had no time to work on merging the
: source trees. We gave it an honest effort...we simply don't have the
: people resources to accomplish and maintain it.

A few days ago, I suggested that this was merely an idea whose time
hadn't yet arrived.  The more I think about it, the more I think that
is correct.

It would basically take a lot of effort to merge
NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD into a common userland (let alone kernel)
base.  However, likely the best that can be hoped for in the short
term is that each of these OSes take a look at the others and merge in
changes slowly and make more of an effort to converge.  Yes, this will
be hard, but it may help future attempts to do the merge.

I know that I'll be looking at merging some changes from others into
the FreeBSD source base where appropriate.

Maybe in time there can be a unified BSD user land, but the respective
camps have just been too busy :-)

Warner