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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, d neal wise wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Miles Nordin wrote:
>
> > OpenBSD:
> >
> > There have been positive reports of this on the list as well, but I
> > don't have personal experience.  The port is probably based on
> > NetBSD, since Open and NetBSD share code with each other a lot.  I
> > would therefore expect it to be very similar, except OpenBSD
> > emphasizes practicality or usefulness or market-appropriateness
> > or something over NetBSD's imperative toward clean code.
>
> They share code but Open split from Net over 5 years ago. Only a NetBSD
> person would consider it still derivative of NetBSD. :) Obviously a lot
> can change in 5 years. Open *really* emphasizes security over everything
> else... this may include practicality and usefulness from time to time
> :).

What's Open? We have OpenBSD, OpenBoot, open(), ....

I suggest you call things by their proper name to avoid confusion. (It's
clear in this message but I noticed similar usage where the context is not
at all that clear.)

Hugo.

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