On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 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.

Lots of the developers work on more than one BSD.  What would you like
to see in order to make that 'official'?

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

    http://www.openpackages.org/

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