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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:15:57 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why free/net/open?
Message-ID:  <199604040145.LAA22838@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604031921.NAA00546@compound> from "Tony Kimball" at Apr 3, 96 01:21:59 pm

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Tony Kimball stands accused of saying:
> 
> 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?

Wait for Oliver Stone to make a movie about it.

Seriously, the basic reasons were "political differences", and they're 
not really easy to condense into 15-second bites.  Settle for the fact
that, at the moment, the various camps are happy to share their work.

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