Re: Drones

[Manor Askenazi]

Dear Swarm team et. al.,

A while back, Ken Cline posted the following, with regards to the
issue of the "Future of Swarm":

 > At the very least maybe Chris, or any Hive member, would
 > post a description of all the options that are considered
 > serious possibilities.  This could be for the benefit of
 > those who missed SwarmFest, as well as those of us still
 > trying to sort out the implications of each of the four
 > options mentioned during the workshop.

which is, as far as I can tell, a 100% legitimate request (especially
coming from someone who is already a Swarm user), delivered thoughtfully
and quite tactfully. Unfortunately, there are other levels of existence,
as embodied in the following nonsense:

 > In honey bee hives all of the drones(males) are thrown out of the hive
 > around about September and inevitably die. Did choose to be a drone
 > because Swarm funding ends in September? [grin]

While the former does not deserve to be reproduced in the presence of
the latter, they are both symptomatic of a common cause. Namely, that
the Swarm team has stated _publicly_ that its current form of funding
ends in September, without addressing _publicly_, the obvious
implications.

In the interest of the tremendous good spirit and good will generated
during SwarmFest'97, I believe an official statement about this matter
ought to be produced.

Regards,

Manor.