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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion)
Date: 13 Sep 1993 14:07:21 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: haley@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 13 Sep 93 04:20:08 GMT


In article <haley.747894008@husc8> haley@husc8.harvard.edu (Elizabeth
Haley) writes:

   But the various members of the *BSD teams are scattered across the
   country or world.

That's why we chose the name `NetBSD'.  It is a tribute to the
internet, without which our combined work would not be possible.

The world changes, line by line...