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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems
Date: Tue,  4 Dec 2001 14:05:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112041905.OAA14111@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112031647410.17686-100000@binet.math.psu.edu>

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112031647410.17686-100000@binet.math.psu.edu> you write:
>Hmm...  I doubt that "for everyone to contribute" is a good thing,
>but seeing is a different story...

Nonsense.  Everyong is free to contribute.  But, contribution is not
synonymous with acceptance.

The labs might run into another problem if development source is there
for all to pick at.  Surely they will receive a ton of patches for things
that they're already aware of, have already fixed but not synced to the
outside fileserver, or are still experimental and changing rapidly.  The
cost in terms of time and resources to sift through what comes in from
the outside could be non-trivial.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03 21:34 rob pike
2001-12-03 22:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-04 19:05   ` Dan Cross [this message]
2001-12-04 21:59     ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07  9:36       ` Barry
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-05  8:49 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-12-04 17:27 erik quanstrom
2001-12-04 10:36 forsyth
2001-12-03 22:50 jmk
2001-12-03 21:31 rob pike
2001-12-03 16:27 presotto
2001-12-03 16:07 anothy
2001-12-03 16:04 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 15:45 bwc
2001-12-03 14:49 bwc
2001-12-02 17:05 Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-03 10:09 ` josh d
2001-12-03 15:24   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-12-03 15:08     ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 15:48     ` andrey
2001-12-03 18:03   ` Ozan Yigit
2001-12-03 20:51     ` Mike Haertel
2001-12-03 10:10 ` north_
2001-12-03 16:55   ` John S. Dyson
2001-12-05  9:56   ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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