Keepers of the flame (was Re: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c)

[elliott Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com]

G. David Butler wrote:
> Are we ready to build a team to do Plan9 enhancement/development?
> We could use the FreeBSD model.  Or do we want to leave the
> system as it is with Lucent as keeper of the updates?

Is Lucent really keeper of the updates anyway? It seems to me that every
time a problem is mentioned someone (often forsyth) says "oh yeah, I
fixed that ages ago; I'll look out the patch". I don't think it's true
that when I finally get me, my CD and sufficient computers all together
and all in the same country, I'll be able to pop over to Lucent and ftp
all the patches I need.

I'm not sure what you mean by the FreeBSD model. To me that means "stick
the source tree on an FTP site and let all and sundry play". That
doesn't seem to fit with the idea of us all having handed over cash to
AT&T and (presumably, I haven't read it yet) having agreed not to pass
anything on.

It certainly would be nice if we could guarantee that people don't have
to keep fixing things independently of one another. It might be
interesting to know what everyone's doing with Plan 9, too. Where
people's interests lie.

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