From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 28 0:45: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [63.145.197.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F76A37B40E; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15msKH-0002dt-00; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:44:49 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:44:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: probably off-topic for Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load In-Reply-To: <20010927231327V.jkh@freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Progress in these types of situations nearly always comes from people > with enough self-interest in the problem area to actually commit to > working on it. Rather than asking for people who have written an And sometimes someone can be made to be interested by being paid. > autofsd to step forward, why not instead start working on this project > yourselves and ask for volunteers to HELP you address the problem? > That's taking on the problem from the right end, IMHO. I know a lot of people believe that "open source" means volunteer only. But, in fact, a lot of freely-provided code was paid for. I am not saying that this particular NIS improvement should be paid for, but I am saying that paying developers is another option. Even if a "funded" project is not completed; it can probably often help get the momentum needed to get volunteers to begin contributing. I wonder what it would be like if a few companies -- that are forced to use proprietary software due to certain needs -- would redirect their funds to getting the needed software developed (and donated) as open source. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message