Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thought provoking piece on NetBSD
Date: 2006-09-02 14:08:59
Message-ID: 2088.1157206139@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project
>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your
>> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own.

> Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples.

And? Seen either of them around lately?

(Solaris is still around, of course, but AIUI that's a complete
rewrite not a continuation of SunOS.)

regards, tom lane

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