From the start, 386BSD did not have the ambitions of its rivals at the time. Nor did
it approach the public in the cut throat, ruthless manner that others in both the
so called "freeware" and attempted commercial sides did. Public relations, disinformation,
and other "spiking" manuevers, while common, were never a part of 386BSD - simply did
not play that game. Having a significant business background, the real players could
counter such easily with far greater effect. Either the elements of an emerging "open
source" market would come to need what was being assembled, or would not. It appears
they do not need the robust or scalability as we intended.
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