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It seems the page is out of sync with what's really happening with nvi.

~~https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi <--- links to nowhere, I don't know what's going on, but it seems Keith simply abandoned it.~~
I don't quite see how linking to the man page of OpenBSD makes much sense. We might as well link to die.net's page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/nvi
The latest development version is 1.81.6: http://garage.linux.student.kuleuven.be/~skimo//nvi/
~~Maybe linking to the git repo might be useful: http://repo.or.cz/w/nvi.git~~

Polemon (talk) 06:46, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for differences.

 "Due to the liberal policy of the BSD license..."

The article states nvi differs arcoss BSDs due to its license. I doubt this is the actual reason. I would guess the real reason is more that primary authors, as the article notes, are not actively maintaining nvi. Without a maintainer to merge in changes from various sources, fragmentation will naturally occur. And, I note, this will occur even if a more restrictive license (but one which still allows creation of derived works), such as the GNU GPL, is used. Of course, this is just conjecture. Not fact. But then, so is the stated reason in the article. I recommend the reason be deleted. Kdz 03:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Only Posix?

For (n)curses exists in Windows pcurses so why is nvi limited to Posix?--141.24.13.49 (talk) 13:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]