> > i think that open source code has a very different outlook > > on the world than plan 9. it's very hard (and frustrating) to > > deal with the culture clash when porting. > > That brings to mind something that I've been thinking about for a > couple of years. In watching the stuff in Linux and poking around the > simulators and old code, I can see at least three different cultures. > Murry Hill (Bell Labs), 545 Technology Sq (MIT), and Berkeley. These > cultures have belief systems that are mutually exclusive. And there > must be subcultures as well. The socket interface, for example, is > really MIT culture thru BBN to BSD. > > Anyone else see this? More cultures?
Cannot help with that. Is there a compact description of these cultures, and/or the differences between them?
