Subject: Re: Outdated links in bsd-family-tree
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/02/2006 15:39:03
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:48:37PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> writes:
>> 
>> > About the daemonnews article, I managed to find a copy and I put it on
>> > http://www.NetBSD.org/~rpaulo/bsd_family.html.
>> 
>> Ok, I wasn't aware of the ezine.daemonews.org domain.
>> I synched the bsd-family-tree file with FreeBSD v 1.101.
>
> I wish you wouldn't.  The FreeBSD version of the tree includes
> politically motivated changes that are inaccurate as to the actual
> history involved (they seem to have snuck into our version some time
> ago).
>
> The actual fact of the matter is that there should be a line from
> NetBSD 0.8 to FreeBSD 1.0; the patchkit maintainers, who created
> FreeBSD, were provided with a prerelease snapshot of NetBSD and
> incorporated changes from it into their own working tree.

Ok, go ahead and fix it.
I'll keep that in mind when I merge future changes from FreeBSD.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>