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To: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
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Subject: Re: Grand Unified Unix 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:05 -0700
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>Would it not be possible to create a user-land unification, from those
>aspects of unix (BSD) which have, by and large, not devolved? Such an
...
>Comments?

   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.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project