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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:51:09 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
Cc:        Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@NetBSD.org, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>, users@dragonflybsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unified BSD? 
Message-ID:  <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 %2B0100." <50A23E70.8010509@update.uu.se> 

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Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> 
> Date:		Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 
> Message-id:	<50A23E70.8010509@update.uu.se> 

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2012-11-13 11:45, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> >> On 12 Nov 2012, at 21:37 , Robin  Björklin <robin.bjorklin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four largest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each and create a Unified BSD?
> >>
> >>
> >> You'd end up creating a fifth.
> >
> > At least a sixth, IIRC. You left out MirBSD from your distribution list.
> > Also, you could argue that Minix, with its NetBSD compatibility,
> > is a seventh and MacOS-X, with its partially (Free-/Net-)BSD compatible
> > userland, an eighth.
> 
> And what about 2BSD, BSD 3 and BSD 4 with all their releases?
> (And I assume that there was probably something that in retrospect would 
> have been called 1BSD as well...)
> 
> 	Johnny

No they were sequential from same team, not later parallel forks.

Cheers,
Julian
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