> 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. -- hiro
