Re: fyi: slashdot discussion on distributed filesystems

[peter honeyman]

> 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