i think it was timing personally. i was an old sun guy and really didn’t like the solaris shift. there was about a onetk two year gap where 386bsd was kind of half baked but you could get a .9 slackware install running pretty easy. when freebsd released i switched back. not sure if that’s actually correct, but is the way i remember it
Yeah, the story I read was Jolitz went AWOL, so there was a contentious period when Net/Open/Free split and self-organized and started releasing again.