From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <66f291edfdc468140aa206eb1866b39c@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ddc From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:10:16 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15f9b2ba-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.