On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, James Howard wrote:

> I was sitting here reading the histories of FreeBSD and NetBSD and trying
> to make sense of it all.  Both split off from 386BSD in 1993.  That much
> everyone seems to agree on.  As near as I can tell, FreeBSD split in
> mid-1993 and NetBSD in earler 1993.  But why didn't the FreeBSD group just
> become a 385-militant wing of the NetBSD development effort?  Why was a
> different project needed?

Politics, different points of views, big egos...(one, some or all of
those) The same goes for why OpenBSD came to be and why there are still 3
BSDs.

What I never understood is why "officially" they don't coperate more with
each other. I believe that unoficially some of the developers
work/help/contribute to more than one of the BSDs.

Does anyone know what ever happened to the push for an unified port
system?