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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:09:30 -0400
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From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012
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On 18 March 2012 22:04, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I am a student who would be interested in doing GSOC next year. In
>> reality it all comes down to getting paid though. Like someone
>> mentioned, very little work gets done on "free will", so gsoc is a
>> good approach. (especially implementing not so fun things nobody dares
>> touch)
>
> that's one way of looking at it. =A0another way of looking at it is that
> the best jobs are the ones that you'd do anyway. =A0and one could argue
> these lucky people get the best job done.
>

Agreed - people do tend to perform better when working on a project
they are really invested in.

But if that was true enough, wouldn't tons of people be stepping up to
support plan9 development?

If not, then obviously it's not worth anyone's time.

Calvin