I would read McKusick's book on FreeBSD. He gives a good historical accounting of the BSD's. Also the book Raymond's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. Original Message From: Jorge Luis Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:08 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Is true that the BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them? It is written in article 'Linux and the GNU System' posted in GNU Operating System: "People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them, but the code had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU programs, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD programs; however, taken as wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately. The BSD developers did not write a kernel and add it to the GNU system, and a name like GNU/BSD would not fit the situation.(5)" Is true that the BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them? If no, what is the true story of BSD developers? -- View this message in context: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Is-true-that-the-BSD-developers-wer e-inspired-to-make-their-code-free-software-by-the-example-of-the-tp289840.ht ml Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
