> On Nov 9, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Richard Elling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 8, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Most of this work is designed to make life better for developers who build 
>> products on top of illumos, as opposed to adding customer visible features.
> 
> My point exactly. No customer visible features == no value.
> -- richard
> 

This line of thinking would prevent the creation of things like compilers, 
make, etc.  if it were allowed to be the driving force.

*Enablement* of developers is its own value.

Anyway, as you’ve not contributed code, nor has Coraid, to the illumos code 
base, the work I’ve been doing costs you nothing and only benefits you.  So I 
really am not all that interested in this “no features no value” view point.

If you want to create value & features, please go and build it.  I *DO NOT* 
appreciate folks telling me that the work I’m doing is totally worthless.  I’m 
sure you would not appreciate the same, if I said it about the work you do.  
After all, at least in this community, you’ve not created any new features or 
capabilities — though I *do* happen to know that the work you’ve done here has 
been helpful to many people in supporting ZFS.  But you know, that’s not a 
marketable feature, either!

  - Garrett



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