The “BSD” in our name is an obvious recognition of our heritage as a derivative of 4.4BSD and 386BSD.
Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat systems; many of us have never met each other in person. We also use a remote source code management system called CVS which enables a large number of developers to do independent work on the same source tree easily. We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that made NetBSD possible. The “Net” in our name was thus chosen as a tribute to the Internet.
Also, just as an aside, NetBSD was released in 1993, long before network security had anywhere near the attention it has today.
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I always thought it was peculiar that the “net” one was not the security focused one.
From the NetBSD About page[0][1]:
Also, just as an aside, NetBSD was released in 1993, long before network security had anywhere near the attention it has today.
[0] https://www.netbsd.org/about/
[1] https://www.netbsd.org/about/#content_name
wow this must be a good few years old
describing remote software development as if it was novelty
First release of NetBSD was in 1993. It was more novel back then.