'Christmas' - Slide 2
Even though rumors had been circulating about this for
over five months, everyone on the Bigfoot port is a little
shocked, including all the IBMers that had been
participating. Linas Vepstas in particular is rather bitter
because all the time and effort that was invested by the
project members was essentially wasted, since IBM’s port
was done in secret with no sharing of information or
resources with the Bigfoot team, and none of the Bigfoot
team’s work would wind up being merged into the IBM
port.
The secrecy on IBM’s part was necessary, due to
IBM politics, but still galling.
Copyright 2001 by Mark Post