> 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.
