Re: [9fans] ddc

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

Perhaps a more accurate response would have been:

	I have no plan, and to the best of my knowledge jmk
	has no plan, and since we're the two who have hacked
	on vga the most in recent years, you might well conclude
	that no one has any likely-to-be-executed plan to add
	DDC suport in the near future.

Saying things like that strikes me as overly pedantic, when
it should be taken as a given that I'm not speaking for any
collections of users anyway.

> Sigh, shouldn't the -user community- be making this decision...

The only decision I see in the post is about my deciding it wasn't
worth my time to work on vga further.  And I would argue that
I, not the -user community-, have every right to make decisions
about how I spend my time.

There's no policy anywhere.  The only decisions are about what
you do with your own time.  If you want to write or change
something, all the source is there.  Have at it.

> I can say that there is a significant contingent of Hangar 18 users
> who disagree with the assertion that the current VGA support is
> good enough.

That's fine.  Please, go ahead.  I would be more than happy
if the user community wrote more tools and did things like
this.  (Some have, and I am quite grateful.)  I agree that the
VGA support isn't good enough for many applications, but
_for me_, those applications aren't important enough to warrant
spending more time on vga.

Russ