>> I often wonder why AFS client code is not freely distributed (like the
>> Netscape model)?
>
>GOOD QUESTION!
>
>i have concluded, after years of contemplating this very question, that
>it is due to a weird corporate death wish among the decision-makers at
>transarc.
>
>good thing there are alternatives like arla and NFSv4 waiting in the
>wings. i'm looking forward to working with motivated, success-oriented
>folks again, after 10 years of hanging with the moribund afs crowd.
>
>grumble.
>
> peter
From: http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=moribund
Mor"i*bund (?), a. [L. moribundus, from moriri to die. See Mortal.]
In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.
Hmmm, I have not noticed that in any of the AFS people I have worked with.
In fact, AFS enthusiasts I have met seem to be more positively minded
than most.
Still. I find it sad that such a work of genius (as AFS most certainly is)
does not get the wider exposure it deserves.
Perhaps, we should start an annual AFS User Group meeting?
--
cheers
paul http://acm.org/~mpb
"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"
--Bilbo Baggins, from "The hobbit" by JRR Tolkein
