[TUHS] Re: Fwd: [simh] Announcing the Open SIMH project

On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 11:20:58PM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS wrote: Umm, were you there? I was a BSD guy before I turned to Linux and I turned to Linux because of those wars. There is no good reason to have {386,Free,Net,Open,DragonFly}bsd other than, as Linus stated, "Nobody could decide who would drive the big red fire truck so now they each have their own toy fire truck that they drive around". BSD would have won if there was a Linus for BSD. There was not so you got all this replicated effort, the BSD community effectively divided and conquered themselves. It was, and is, a train wreck. It's the poster child for how not to manage a project. I did BitKeeper for Linus because he refused to use any crappy source management solution and people like Dave Miller were threatening to fork just so they had some solution. I did that because a forked Linux would turn into the same mess of {386,Free,Net,Open,DragonFly}bsd which is obviously not remotely close to ideal. Far from it. I lived through all of that, I was an active kernel developer at Sun, SGI and elsewhere. I would have loved to have seen the SunOS VM system ported to 4.x BSD and that been the default answer for a kernel. Instead we got Linux, which has it's positive points for sure, but it also has decided to let every feature imaginable into the kernel.