yes, you are young, naïve, and 'bat crazy'/idealistic (never could find the difference between these two ;) ...
but you are also quite lazy -- had you taken the time to research the history behind the forks and the current stated goals and objectives of each of these OS's, you would see why only a tiny minority of developers participate in more than one of the projects, and that despite the common ancestry and BSD philosophy, there are "irreconcilable differences" between all of the projects. On 12 Nov 2012 at 21:37, Robin Björklin wrote: > Hi! > > First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive > junior sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see > the bigger picture and the good of the cause. > > Now over to the reason for my post. > > As all of you probably know there's a lot of buzz around Gnu/Linux these > days and I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less. What I'm wondering is > why the BSD community which from what I can gather isn't as big as the > Linux community have decided to split their resources into several > different projects/forks/distributions. To me it seems *BSD would be in > a more competitive shape if all developers would get in under one roof? > > Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four > largest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of > each and create a Unified BSD? > > Kind Regards, > Robin Bjorklin
