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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:35:53 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD Merger Announcement
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000310112943.13688L-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <v04220802b4ee6906bc73@[194.78.234.238]>

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 10:27 AM +0200 2000/3/10, Narvi wrote:
> 
> >  Go 4.5BSD, Go!
> 
> 	No, that would probably have to be more like 6.0BSD, because 
> FreeBSD 5.0 is going to be the merged FreeBSD & BSD/OS codebase.
> 

No-no-no. 4.5BSD as in the 'again-unified' decendant of 4.4BSD. Possibly
5.0BSD if people want to signify a new start. But 'gratis' movement in
versioning numbering imho sucks.

> >  Anybody involved for even slightly more than shortly has probably seen a
> >  flamewar or two. Even if they have become much more rare than they used to
> >  be (a good thing).
> 
> 	My understanding is that this has gone *way* beyond a flamewar, 
> and has gotten intensely personal.  We're talking serious threats of 
> bodily harm.
> 

Definately. The persons in question start a flame whenever they get close
enough. Think of the mix of said persons of as say the mix of sawdust and
liquid oxygen in a tight package 8-)

> 	If we can find a way to put this behind us, or work around this 
> problem, then I think there may be a chance that we could actually 
> potentially see a merged codebase from all the major members of the 
> *BSD family.
> 

We can have it if we do the merging-in ourselves. It's just not overly
realistic.

> -- 
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