116: A Made Up Excuse
I’m hurriedly throwing together a talk for NYCBUG on 1 April, and so had to disinter the best sentence I have ever written.
All of those books, and my best work isn’t in any of them. For April Fools’ Day 2003, Dan Langille and I wrote an article about how the United Nations were forcibly merging FreeBSD and NetBSD to form FretBSD. The world was different 23 years ago. The US had just attacked Iraq on a made-up excuse and we felt our tiny part of the world needed a laugh.
Why did we not include OpenBSD? We did.
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