The future of NetBSD

[Ingo Schwarze]

Breen Ouellette wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:22:59PM -0600:

> This really isn't relevant to OpenBSD,

schwarze at athene $ head -n2 /var/run/dmesg.boot                                 
OpenBSD 3.9-stable (GENERIC) #2: Wed Aug 30 16:53:43 CEST 2006
    schwarze at athene.usta.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
schwarze at athene $ cd /usr/src/sys/dev
schwarze at athene $ cvs log > cvs.log 2>&1
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'from.*netbsd' cvs.log
2382
schwarze at athene $ cvs log -d \>2001-09-01 > cvs-new.log 2>&1
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'from.*netbsd' cvs-new.log
1156
schwarze at athene $ grep -c ^revision cvs-new.log
21719

I'm not quite sure _major_ disruptions to one *BSD are irrelevant
to the others.  By the way,

schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'from.*freebsd' cvs-new.log
469
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'from.*linux' cvs-new.log   
90
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'netbsd' cvs-new.log        
2024
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'freebsd' cvs-new.log
784
schwarze at athene $ grep -ic 'linux' cvs-new.log   
193

In any case, it would hardly be good news should any other free
project fail, whatever may have happened in the past.  Even if
there is some competition among various projects, one's loss
rarely is anybody else's win, when free software is concerned.

Ok, i'm not a developer; so i shall go back to lurking now.

-- 
Ingo Schwarze <schwarze at usta.de>
Serverbetrieb usta.de / studis.de