why is sendmail the adopted mta?

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

Michel Talon wrote:
Please put an end to this ever-recurring bikeshed.
There are good reasons why these bikesheds are ever recurring,
and experience shows that, finally, these controversial softs
get expelled. Perl has been sacked from FreeBSD-5, Bind8 has been replaced,
DragonflyBSD comes with a new installer, etc. 
Apart from that--would the fact that Postfix comes with the IBM Public 
license be a reason it couldn't be imported to replace sendmail?

--
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
 and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
                                -- A. P. J.