I wonder if they can just approach to Google and ask if they could just donate a couple Compute Engines...
but at the same point, why do we need freebds and openbsd? In terms of resource, can't we get merge the two team together?
but at the same point, why do we need freebds and openbsd? In terms of resource, can't we get merge the two team together?
It is not like the Debian world, where there are dozens of maintained forks and flavors of Debian.
They are fundamentally very different projects and communities.
Are you a project manager?
If you're not familiar with the BSD World, what you asked was tantamount to Why can't we merge Gentoo and Ubuntu?'
The BSD clans have very different goals and philosophies.
It is different in other projects where people see that if they can merge effort they may get better. My example is Pylons and Pyramid.
Secondly, don't assume that kind of question is coming from project manager's voice. That's rather stupid and narrow minded. Any one can ask that question.
Whether the project is so distinct in terms of code or philosophy, it is a genuine question. Anyone should be allowed to ask question. All the downvotes are either because (1) some bigot mind can't appreciate question, or (2) people who can't get along with the other development team so any thought on merging two project must be a crime, or (3) people just hate my idea of asking Google to donate a couple machines.
You are just making the *BSD world bad because no one shall ever asked such stupid question why two teams should never think about merging into a single team.
Or (4), people are strongly adversarial to the "why do we need" question in the context of open source projects. Do we also really need iOS and Android? Windows and OS X and Linux and the many flavours of BSD? Chocolate and vanilla ice cream?
> Whether the project is so distinct in terms of code or philosophy, it is a genuine question.
No it isn't.
Yes, people who dislike your ideas will downvote you. It's pretty much how the interwebs work. If there are more people who dislike them than people who like them, the downvotes will outweight the upvotes. There also tends to be no correlation between how bad an idea is and how many downvotes or upvotes it receives. Because the Internet is full of mean, misbehaving people like me.
OpenBSD split from NetBSD in the 90s. FreeBSD is separate from either one. IIRC FreeBSD and NetBSD both have some roots in a project called 386BSD, and before that, some releases from UC Berkeley.
In practice, though, even today they tend to share a lot of new code. When one of them gets a good idea it's often ported to the others.