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Kirk McKusick is still an important person in BSD. This story omits the role of NetBSD in opening up development in the BSDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetB

• byuu 11y ago
  > And how many Linux distributions are there? asks McKusick, rolling his eyes. Fifteen, 20? How quaint ;) I would love to hear what he thinks about that statement and the state of distros today: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Dis... =)
• brynet 11y ago
  In that sense, it also omits the part where OpenBSD truly opened development by enabling read access to the CVS repo (log/diff/annotate) to everyone. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf Before that, they could arbitrary cut off your access: http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NetBSD&type=revision&diff=665541892&oldid=656673576&diffonly=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NetBSD&type=revis...