In message <19990316103634.A13927@thebrain.conmicro.cx>Jay Maynard writes
>The current discussion about how root must use csh because this is BSD is an
>example of the worst case of NIH syndrome I've ever seen. "If you want SysV,
>you know where to find it." Are all ideas that come from SysV necessarily
>evil?
>
>I find it fascinating that folks can complain about not having much int he
>way of mind share for NetBSD in one breath and then defend doing things
>differently fromt he rest of the world just because SysV does it the other
>way in the next.

That's not what was meant at all.  It's not

     ``defend[ing] doing things differently from the rest of the world'',

it's just doing things the way BSD does them.  FreeBSD and OpenBSD use
csh for root.  For a BSD system, *changing* root's shell to /bin/sh is
being gratuitously incompatible; not the other way 'round.