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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0e] Kernel's bss has grown up Date: 8 Nov 1993 20:00:22 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 52 Message-ID: <2bm8gm$6d2@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <MYCROFT.93Nov6093036@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CGD.93Nov7174549@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hastyCG5Inz.C66@netcom.com> <JTSILLA.93Nov8104426@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <JTSILLA.93Nov8104426@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu>, James Tsillas <jtsilla@denali.ccs.northeastern.edu> wrote: > >Right on with the first comment! For users of these OS's (people like me >who depend on them for their daily work) it's kind of scary to see this >sort of things. Makes me want to go out and shell out money for SCO :-( >(no, I'm not THAT scared!). I don't know if I'm scared at all. No matter which of the TWO OSs I choose, chances are extremely good that if something really cool and useful comes along, then the people from one camp are going to have it within a few weeks of the other releasing it. >How about working together on coming up with an even better buffering >scheme or perhaps do away with the buffer scheme altogether and >implement a memory mapped fs like I have on my Sun (please don't respond >with "you have the source go ahead and do it", all I'm asking is for >what are obviously two talented programmers to put their heads together >rather than against each other). It's not entirely clear that this is a "groups" task per se, as much as a task that somebody needs to sit down and do. Once they've done that, the other camp can grab it, and it's still done. >Take the XFree86 project as an example of a free software project which >started out as separate efforts but (through the participation of some >dedicated person) merged and went on to better things. Do you think that >project didn't have competition? It did, but it was healthy and the >result was a stronger piece of software. Please also note that the XFree86 team has not been without rifts---I believe that Amancio was part of the team once and decided to leave to pursue XS3. While it may arguably be more civil and the current BSD-du-jour bickering, it's still and indication that just about ANY large project will have inner conflict (Just HOW many different releases of Linux are there now?) While the initial inclination is to worry about all the different people working on different variants of the OS, I don't really see it as too horrible a thing. There are enough competant people out there that any changes will propagate... Marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--