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From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development
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Date: 4 Jul 92 22:02:48 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu's message of 4 Jul 92 04:01:45 GMT

Chris Torek's most salient point was that anybody can do anything they want
with the free parts of BSD, but to have an impact you've got to get people
to take you seriously.

I suspect that volunteer coordinators will appear.  There are still a few
R&D shops around with BSD enthusiasts working at them; and there are a lot
of universities with smart system programmers who like to hack late at night.

The problem is going to be finding a balance between fragmentation on the
one hand, and stagnation on the other.  Keith and the others at CSRG found
a balance and enforced it by being "the creators".  If volunteer coordinators
appear post-4.4BSD, it will pay us all to cooperate with them even if we don't
always agree with their decisions.
-- 
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me