Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux

[Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>]

On Thursday, 26 November 1998 at 17:21:54 -0600, Open Systems Inc. wrote:
>
> 	Here is my thought. As crazy as it may or may not be.
> If you want a collaboration between the 3 Free *BSD's why not have a BSD
> IETF group. Like the 3 primary architects from each *BSD, the kernel
> architect and the VM, and networking architect. Those 3 architects from
> each *BSD make up the BSD IETF. Thats 9 members. Those 9 work together to
> draw out RFC's the *BSD's can follow should they choose to implement
> something. Like threads for instance. They draw up the RFC on how threads
> should be done. and *IF* the various *BSD's decide to do threads there
> still doing it in their own Free|Net|Open BSD circles but they have to
> conform to the standard BSD RFC for threads.

I think it's a good idea to have some consensus on how things are
done.  But in the same anarchistic way that the individual BSDs
develop, it's unlikely that all groups would agree to implement all
points of the ``standard''.  On the other hand, it could help limit
gratuitous changes, and as Adrian Filipi-Martin suggested, it might
make sense to spend more time ensuring a more consistent userland.
This kind of initiative could help.

Greg
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