Re: [9fans] It looks like our GSoC application was rejected

[hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

>  The required introspection is about how we function as an open source
>  community, I suspect.
This, i regard rather suspiciously.

>  We don't fit the usual open source mold, and generally cooperate
>  quite poorly with one another (with some notable exceptions).
>  Our projects aren't particularly well integrated, and don't lead in a
>  coherent directions.
By design, our filesystems are all about cooperation.
There are a lot of different, often unrelated projects based on plan9,
for this is a whole operating system and not some fancy ipod. Plan9
aims to be coherent on an other layer.

>  Probably they made the right decision, unless we choose to address
>  these issues.  We might not *want* to address these issues, but we
>  should be aware of them.
Choosing hurd can't be right.
We should be aware of the facts, Perhaps the issues are not as trivial
as I may put them, but your consequences are too wide in my view.
Even though I agree with you about plan9 being very different from
other systems, keep in mind, that in other context this kind of
individuality is often seen positively.
And again, take a look at hurd, they didn't get anywhere, allthough
being in that crazy open source mold.

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hiro