[ Thanks to Hans
Bezemer for this link. ]
“Let me tell you a little story, before you try to explain ‘The
Grand Unification Theory’ to me again. 386BSD was written mainly by
Berkeley alumni Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz. After the release
of 386BSD 0.1, a group of users began collecting bug fixes and
enhancements, releasing them as an unofficial patchkit. Due to
differences of opinion between the Jolitzes and the patchkit
maintainers over the future direction and release schedule of
386BSD, the maintainers of the patchkit founded the FreeBSD project
in 1993 to continue their work.“Around the same time, the NetBSD project was founded by a
different group of 386BSD users, with the aim of unifying 386BSD
with other strands of BSD development into one multi-platform
system…”