Re: [9fans] ddc

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

> but would it hurt to push your new vga code out? supposedly
> the benefit of open source is that someone else can do the
> work for you, however badly. if you're concerned with having
> to answer lots of stupid questions, that's a different issue :)

everyone keeps telling me that, but i'm just not convinced.
there's no magic here: if i put my unfinished programs
online, why is anyone else going to finish them for me?
i think open source projects get help from people on pieces
that they need (like a particular driver), but basic changes are
much less common.

anyway, /n/sources/contrib/v.  enjoy.

> anyway, hasn't the graphics world come to behave much the same
> way the CPU architecture world does? one graphics chip to rule
> them all? i just re-read 'systems software research is irrelevant'
> (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.ps) and am under
> the impression that supporting the two major graphics card vendors
> suffices in 90% of the cases nowadays.

yeah, but those last 10% are 99% of the work.