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To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux 
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:25:18 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


ADRIAN Filipi-Martin writes:
> 	I also tend to think that most of what gets people heated up and
> annoyed with one another tends to be kernel issues.

No. It is personalities. Theo de Raadt didn't leave NetBSD over
technical issues at all -- it was personality issues. There *are*
technical issues, but they did not cause the various splits.

> I don't think the majority of the *BSD userland code is, or ever
> will be, contraversial.  This is the fraction that I'm aiming at.

All you're going to do is create a new userland distribution, then.

The only way anything could ever merge between the groups would be for
someone with astounding diplomatic skills to get them to agree to
merge something. Creating a project that produces a "merged" BSD
userland without the active cooperation of the management of the
various *BSDs will create Yet Another BSD Userland, not a merged
project.

Perry