Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
To: David Leonard <d@fnarg.net.au>
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/05/1998 10:21:22
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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: David Leonard <d@fnarg.net.au>
Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux
Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG,
	 advocacy@openbsd.org

On 05-Dec-98 David Leonard wrote:
> Maybe this means having a www.bsd.org with a unified documentation
> tree employing apache magic to show the docs for a particular OS
> based on cookies or whatever!? jkh's multiple PR phone calls are
> good; more feeding of the press is good - but all in a *BSD-unified
> fashion. Projecting only a single-camp's image into the media will
> serve only to confuse the poor (BSD-poor) reader.

If ye fired up yer browser and went to www.bsd.org ye see that it's already
being used for the good of the BSD's. They are heavily under construction.

btw, about the POSIX thing... NT tries to aim at POSIX compliance, so I'd say
POSIX is important and we should be pushing that name some more.

To attract developers we could be issueing some more statements with regard to
the diverse and _free_ compilers that are out there. I for one am way more
happy using *NIX now over Windows closed API's.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
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Junior Network/Security Specialist  |  fideles inveniamur
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