Roland Mainz writes: > Sarcastic comment of the day: Yeah... I remember how it was done "right" > ([1]) in the case of /usr/bin/ksh ... =:-)
You'll need to try harder to get a plonk. :-/ > > and don't have to worry so much about any costs due to > > forking from or contributing to the upstream ... because there > > effectively isn't one. > > Groan... see above... just because the "head" (=maintainer, developer) > is gone doesn't mean the rest of the body (= distributions, users) is > dead, too. Not breaking the user experience *is* a good reason to avoid some changes. It might not be a good reason to avoid other changes. The point I'm making is that there is no one right answer here, and simply asserting "I'm FOSS, so I get a free ride!" is deeply wrong in terms of overall system architecture. That can't be the only answer. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
