From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 1:59:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oscar.yerkes.com (what.snew.com [206.136.64.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8E914D10 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuck@oscar.yerkes.com) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by oscar.yerkes.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA17267; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:59:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19991130015905.A17153@yerkes.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:59:05 -0800 From: chuck To: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many BSDs? Mail-Followup-To: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org References: <3.0.6.32.19991130024727.009fe100@pilot.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991130024727.009fe100@pilot.msu.edu>; from STeve Andre' on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:47:27AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:27 AM 11/30/1999 +0100, Martin Horcicka wrote: >the thing I've never understood is why you are developing three BSD "You." The great BSD central commitee? >systems separately - well, they are not too separate because if one >system implements a thing the other two will probably port it. > >Wouldn't it be better to join the projects together and this way to more >effectively use your time, skills and energy? > >Please, don't lapidate me - I'd just like to know the reasons. > >Martin > >P.S. I'm not member of this lists, so please answer directly to me. > >Sorry for cross-list message. Well, there is one Windows. Monopolistic, no innovation, etc. There are about 12 leading Unixes. They each have different features and strengths. There are 3 BSD OpenSource Unix-alikes and I don't know how many Linux distributions, also Open Source. What's good about OSS? Well, ideas can easily travel from one group to another. A better swapping system comes along in NetBSD and in fairly short order, it's running on the other BSDs. And that's okay. I don't have a lot of tolerance for the usually Press Created "wars between the OSs". If someone's running Linux, at least they are running what I have been roughly calling Unix. ls, partitions and basically the Philosophy of Unix - the toolkit and layered approach to problem solving. So don't think of it as three BSD's battling each other as much as 3 complementary versions, each goading the others to get better. This is what healthy competition is in the Open Source community. Troll answer (recalling 2am): Big troll question I'm sure. Probably sent my MS or those Linux bastards :) to distract everyone from their jobs. If so the answer is that they really are ONE BSD effort, but broken up to keep the Internation Justice Department (a tool of the UN) from recognizing the monopoly. It's all actually controlled by Bob Young/Bill Gates, working in consort to create the idea of competition against Microsoft. Ever see Bob and Bill in the same place? In bikinis, playing bagpipes? I thought not. ;=) later. chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message