Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9

[orc@pell.portland.or.us (david parsons)]

In article <slrnbp6q8f.b5f.pat_e@garcia.efn.org>,
Patrick R. Wade <pat_e@efn.org> wrote:
>In article <43bc6b835731c3c823fdd658cb28775e@plan9.ucalgary.ca>,
>mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:
>>
>>i think Geoff is right -- without somebody being able to work
>>full-time on those things nothing will get done.  the bubble burst and
>>the code that depended on developers' spare time is moving ahead
>>slower and slower -- see how long it took for FBSD 5.0 to come out.
>>
>
>Which seems kind of backwards; one would expect the bubble bursting to
>leave lots of developers with *more* spare time than before...


   Not necessarily.  Being unemployed takes you away from your nice
   remote office where you can work on your open source(r)(tm)(c)
   project after hours and during lunch and puts you at home, where,
   aside from the exciting job of writing PLEASE HIRE ME letters,
   sending resumes, and looking for more victims to send resumes to, you
   become available to the rest of your family.

   I'm guessing that in the two years of recovery that I've enjoyed I've
   done less open source(r)(tm)(c) coding than I've ever done since
   before I was a college student, and the largest chunk of that coding
   has been sneaking off to do 5-6 hour keep-my-fingers-dirty exercises.


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