Re: reiser acceptance (was Re: Atomic filesystem or not)

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

John D. Heintz wrote:

 > Innovate then standardize.

Thanks John, I think you understand me.

Trying to innovate in a standards setting way is really hard unless your 
competitors understand your ideas and support them and want to help you 
create a new market.  Ours don't.

David, I understand you mean well.  You just don't understand what 
motivates technology trailers.  They have no desire at all to innovate.  
Their only desire is to keep us from innovating because it makes more 
work for them.  This is not arrogance speaking, this is tired experience 
speaking.  They want to make nice little tweaks one step at a time, 
working a bit every week between their speaking engagements, and none of 
them put in the kind of grueling coding/debugging marathons that last 
for 4-5 years of despair and a pitiful salary before it finally starts 
to work that I put my guys through.  We beat them mostly by working 
harder and taking harder approaches that no one has chosen before 
because it looked like too much work. 

Maybe it WAS too much work.... oh well.... did it anyway....

Hans