21 Sep
2022
21 Sep
'22
9:09 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:57:51AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
Yes, the CSRG team did do a great deal of innovation
as well as
integration, but the line between the two was not always easy to see from
the outside. And I think developers outside of UCB sometimes felt (to use
Rob's words) 'rankled' for CSRG getting credit for some of innovation
that
really belonged to others, because the CSRG team was the distribution
vehicle.
In the valley it is well known that ideas are easy and execution is hard.
Unless you have been responsible for shipping a big product and supporting
it, it's hard to imagine how hard that is. There is absolutely an art
to knowing when to release and when to keep fixing bugs. I think it
was Keith Bostic who had that touch but I'm not positive. Someone did
and having that ability is at least as important as having the ideas.
A lot less "sexy" but every bit as important.