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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development
Message-ID: <Q13H9U4@taronga.com>
Date: 5 Jul 92 15:36:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: taronga.Q13H9U4
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In article <24380@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>Well, anything anyone can say now is merely a matter of opinion. Only
>time will tell. And of course, there is an assumption inside that as
>well, namely that there will *be* continued development of BSD.
Oh, there will. The question is, will it be guided by a single vision,
as the GNU stuff is, or will it peter out into a million disjoint threads
like Small C or Software Tools.
>We can strike 1a, 1b, 2b, 3a, 3b, and 4a as clearly inapplicable.
Actually 1a(2), 1b(1), and 1c are the espects of the term I was thinking
of.
>Well, a coordinator can `steer' simply by picking and choosing. Anyone
>can do that; there is tons of software out there for the taking.
You can only steer if people follow you. If anyone can do it, everyone
will, so nobody can. The tragedy of the commons.
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