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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Why free/net/open?
To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:31:32 -0700 (MST)
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> I have been unable to locate any adequate description of the reasons
> for the divergence of NetBSD and FreeBSD, and again now of OpenBSD
> from NetBSD.  Can someone suggest a FAQ which addresses this issue?

Net and Free did not "diverge" -- to "diverge", you had to be a
single group to begin with.  What they did was "not merge".  8-).

OpenBSD is described, as distinct from NetBSD, at www.openbsd.org,
and explains itself in that context.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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