From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 10:22:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B0216A4DA for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CAC43D4C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:22:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so962396wxd for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:22:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=KEUYN+KtYT4uwCT5omPmTJB0WyeLCXL57SL1bzkJmgVyZKrUOUsnrg2l/nZmj0trryDU3QMkCg3JVqgkcXYQiXNuxVliNhNbzSGh9+CYFcHA2ce3uHz+Nllm/349kGuq086llS4k7JAMaChji72s/0jU5x7N3ChtJVtQXl7WIOA= Received: by 10.90.94.2 with SMTP id r2mr390419agb; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.98.12 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 03:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0028260609010320q58e323a8sdf18fcb83c467f9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:20:53 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" To: "Gilbert Fernandes" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <1157040361.44f708e9d119d@imp3-g19.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, Miod Vallat , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:22:29 -0000 On 01/09/06, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > > I have a dream. > > A dream of unification. > > Having one BSD. Merging the three projects and, why not, keeping > incompatible stuff as options that would be either one or another. > > But when you tell yourself that it cannot be done, you don't even > try it. > > It would require people to not only do it for the sake of their projects, > but for the whole BSD people. Even those who really piss you off in > other projects. > > Because someday, those projects will live on without us. We'll pass on > like everyone. > > Am I alone thinking this ? > > -- BSD isn't Germany. It's more like Korea ;-) Jeff.