From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 18:42:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C62437B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 14Jnyl-0000pb-00; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:42:11 +0000 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:42:10 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <20010120024210.J706@hand.dotat.at> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010119111143.049ff8a0@localhost> <200101192108.OAA15735@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200101192108.OAA15735@usr08.primenet.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > >Technically, FreeBSD is a stage 2 "cult", on the cusp of achieving >legitimacy as a "religion" (I'll keep that analogy, since it's as apt >as any). It's actually the first Open Source project that I'm aware >of to reach this stage (it is at least the most visible to do so), >and that makes it a very interesting subject of study. AFAIAA Apache has never been a cult, since right from the start it was developed by a group of equals. Admittedly the number of developers is tiny compared to FreeBSD so it doesn't have the same scaling problems, but it has remained reasonably stable over the last five years and has gracefully handled a good deal of churn in the development team. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at "And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message