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From: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar)
Subject: Re: Leadership
Message-ID: <1993Apr26.184407.18453@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Keywords: netbsd, 386bsd and beyond
Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
Reply-To: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
References: <C5yH0F.Hn6@ns1.nodak.edu> <hastyC5z10p.Buo@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 18:44:07 GMT
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In article <hastyC5z10p.Buo@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty
Jr) writes:
|> What is interesting is that the Unix culture keeps getting fragmented and
|> diluted after so many years. Oh, well...
|> 
...Just like the UNIX filesystem. Looks like the developers have learned
something from their software :-)

Is this BSD split due to a power struggle between 2 Berkeley professors,
to see who gets a bigger chunk of research funds, whereas the rest of
the world is blindly switching to whoever brings out the latest release?
Both 386BSD and netbsd are from Berkeley, right?

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