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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development Message-ID: <1992Jul4.220248.13912@PA.dec.com> Date: 4 Jul 92 22:02:48 GMT References: <1992Jul1.232031.15719@gateway.novell.com> <24318@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <5U0HSW2@taronga.com> <18909@plains.NoDak.edu> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Palo Alto Lines: 18 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