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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:14:03 +1100
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge?
Message-ID:  <20010118001403.B10950@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101172102.QAA96480@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:36:06PM -0500
References:  <20010117175244.A34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101172102.QAA96480@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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On Wednesday, 17 January 2001 at 15:36:06 -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:52:44 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
>>> 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'?
>
> A list, even if minimal, of things which the "architects" (i.e.
> core on FreeBSD, don't know it's equivalent on NetBSD) 

The NetBSD core group.  But, like the FreeBSD core team, they're not
the architects.  The committers are the architects.

> agreed to at least consider the other OS. I am not saying they
> should consult each other for everything, but they could at least
> keep in other in mind that would be great.

Well, I agree with Nik that things are getting a lot closer.  But I
think that the way to come closer together is for the individual
subprojects to work together.  And I think that's happening.

Greg
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