From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 18:48:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F7F16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:48:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tls@rek.tjls.com) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0423A43D46 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:48:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tls@rek.tjls.com) Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB0258895; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tls@localhost) by panix5.panix.com (8.11.6p3/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id k5CIm7n23793; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:48:07 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon To: Dale Rahn Message-ID: <20060612184807.GA25574@panix.com> References: <448C511E.1050105@ogyi.hu> <4109e9180606112218j4b6a16fbh5c68f8a0f9703e2e@mail.gmail.com> <20060612142306.GA18115@dalerahn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060612142306.GA18115@dalerahn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: wikipedia article X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:48:10 -0000 On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:23:06AM -0400, Dale Rahn wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:18:55PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 6/11/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > >* IIRC NetBSD was a fork of FreeBSD > > > > that's an interesting theory when you consider that the first netbsd > > release came out 8 months before the first freebsd release. > > > > However, NetBSD was a fork of 386BSD0.1+patchkit, where the group > developing the patchkit became FreeBSD. ITYM "some of" the group; I don't know where things would end up by total lines of code contributed, but I'd say NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD might well end up about even. If you really want to pick nits, I could point out that the patchkit maintainers received a pre-release snapshot of NetBSD 0.8 well before the FreeBSD release, portions of which were incorporated into FreeBSD without proper credit; so it would be wholly reasonable to call FreeBSD a "fork" of NetBSD 0.8. Does it really matter? This whole discussion seems like a deliberate effort to dredge up old rivalries and create bad feeling. It is all ancient, ancient history now. Thor