From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 00:03:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B89AACE for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:03:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericfurman@fastmail.net) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A028FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FCE20492; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:03:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.213]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:03:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.net; h= message-id:from:to:cc:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to:references; s=mesmtp; bh= IE1FfSlh6JeUkJHyfB7cIdm6+6Y=; b=DddvU5w42Ts9zHanvAqUoLESZavWK+eW q7yAiVLXG0QRqMCChkeXzTWHo6Xn5UzBiWKEiH47vxVHNYIUS4aBb529D870ICf4 r6R/eB++H/N6dqc7kSWbjkaKtNksCfS9XHlUpKS0ncW2VPwmrRphijkjVzZ7HqUu 5RGI/NJfhlg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:cc:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=IE1FfSlh6JeUkJHyfB7cIdm6+6Y=; b=K4WMm ZMPrr6/I/ftPTHsArQJd5GbstrCOJ2vLSJt2pSbNDp3ESqzDI/rf3jd5YTdjQkL4 8oeo+y9eCDwx+kO5vhqYd0rK6qUlPicVksY2D7z4GB41Adpm1NnBcbiSyroVvcEA azCFIXSN5nN5KXxWz4+pOOOdWNclD6ost1rgsk= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id B54423A0E8A; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:03:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1352765021.28519.140661152836537.1945ABBA@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: vOz5ft3bT5ld3vZpBgCqqys9KNe4/UKgVxUV2wyOca0p 1352765021 From: Eric Furman To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robin=20Bj=F6rklin?= , OpenBSD Misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Subject: Re: Unified BSD? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:03:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: Cc: users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:03:43 -0000 This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. :) On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, at 03:37 PM, Robin Bj=F6rklin wrote: > Hi! >=20 > First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive > junior > sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see the > bigger > picture and the good of the cause. >=20 > Now over to the reason for my post. >=20 > As all of you probably know there's a lot of buzz around Gnu/Linux these > days and I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less. What I'm wondering is > why > the BSD community which from what I can gather isn't as big as the Linux > community have decided to split their resources into several different > projects/forks/distributions. To me it seems *BSD would be in a more > competitive shape if all developers would get in under one roof? >=20 > 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? >=20 > Kind Regards, > Robin Bjorklin >=20