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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:57:51AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> Yes, the CSRG team did do a great deal of innovation as well as
> integration, but the line between the two was not always easy to see from
> the outside.  And I think developers outside of UCB sometimes felt (to use
> Rob's words) 'rankled' for CSRG getting credit for some of innovation that
> really belonged to others, because the CSRG team was the distribution
> vehicle.

In the valley it is well known that ideas are easy and execution is hard.
Unless you have been responsible for shipping a big product and supporting
it, it's hard to imagine how hard that is.  There is absolutely an art
to knowing when to release and when to keep fixing bugs.  I think it
was Keith Bostic who had that touch but I'm not positive.  Someone did
and having that ability is at least as important as having the ideas.
A lot less "sexy" but every bit as important.