From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser acceptance (was Re: Atomic filesystem or not) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:58:02 -0700 Message-ID: <40FCB46A.2020102@namesys.com> References: <200407151434.23082.marcel@hilzinger.hu> <200407151354.47063.ctpm@ist.utl.pt> <40F6DE4A.2070103@slaphack.com> <40F6E06B.1080505@namesys.com> <40F73370.2090600@slaphack.com> <40FB876E.1050200@namesys.com> <40FC3730.80908@slaphack.com> <40FC4619.8070206@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <40FC4619.8070206@pobox.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "John D. Heintz" Cc: David Masover , Claudio Martins , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Marcel Hilzinger 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