From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200112041905.OAA14111@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems
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Date: Tue,  4 Dec 2001 14:05:04 -0500
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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.