[clean-list] future of clean

[Bas van Dijk]

> Well that seems to be a relatively big if given Rinus' valid
> comment that Clean primarily is a research vehicle (not his
> exact words).

Doesn't research benefit from having a large community? I mean the more people 
look at your work the better.

> One could argue that it's up to the open source community to make
> it run, including all it's features, well on Unix.

Opensource communities are often very good at doing the more boring work like 
making packages for various distributions or helping newbies (like me).

> I'd rather say Unix instead of Linux as MacOS X with it's BSD
> foundation, and all the other BSD Unices out there are equally
> suitable. (I'm not starting a religious war ;-))

Your right. 

To sum it up, I can see no reason why research and an active opensource 
project can't coexist nicely. In fact, I think the two can complement 
eachother.

Bas.