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From: rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Publish and be damned.
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:12:24 -0400
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I was going to let this go by uncorrected, but now that it's
come up again...

Lucio on Apr 20 10:45:
> In reply to private mail from Russ:
> I still need to spend some effort to make the CVS server accessible.
> What I feel a project like this needs is the encouragement of Bell
> Labs, at the very minimum an understanding that its purpose is not
> contrary to Bell Labs' intentions, and that there is a place where
> mutually exclusive objectives can be negotiated to some compromise.

Steve Kilbane, later:
> But either way, I don't see any conflicts here. Russ's comments on avoiding
> conflicts with BL's interests aside, I don't see a problem with Lucio setting
> up the server. Those who like the idea will join in; those who don't, won't.
> Whether it'll produce anything better than what would happen otherwise,
> I don't know.

Lucio again, later:
> I hope I didn't miss an important comment from Russ, if there are
> conflicts with Bell Labs, I would want to be amongst the first to
> know.

I said nothing of the sort.  I think Steve made a reasonable inference
from Lucio's original reply.  I don't remember exactly what I said in
the private message, but it had nothing to do with Bell Labs.  It was
more ``I'm skeptical, but doing something is better than sitting and
complaining.  Let's try it.''

Russ