About the calculus for the project

> What does it say to you? Two things.
> 1. That future lawsuits will probably not bring new enhancements for
> busybox.

No, it says that past ones didn't. I cut my ties at the end of 2008, I haven't seen anything new show up in the busybox repository or on the mailing list that's attributable to lawsuits since, but to be honest I haven't been paying _that_ close attention. Outside of submitting my patch implementation, fixing busybox vi's horrible serial handling, trying to convince Denys to adopt some of toybox's better infrastructure (such as having all information about a command be in one file per command), and some trivial cleanups to demonstrate the the code doesn't HAVE to be #ifdef salad (I.E. "this is what I added the ENABLE_BLAH and USE_BLAH() macros for 5 years ago, you're using them wrong")... I haven't really paid that close attention to the busybox list. I catch up when I move to a new release, get involved in a thread or two, and then wander away again.

I still seem to have an impact when I do show up. My last exchange was:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-November/...

Which led to me fairly randomly advocating "some things are better as as shell scripts, not in C":

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-November/...
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-November/...
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2011-November/...

And then I wandered away again, but this morning I noticed, in year 13 of the project we now have:

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=d0222503ff9ff26...

(My rsync script which syncs my laptop up to my web server also does a git pull on various repositories, and busybox is still in there...)

Sheer coincidence, of course. But given a choice, I'd rather put my energy into Toybox than Busybox. When I worked on busybox, I wanted it to spread up into the desktop and become the standard command line of things like Knoppix while remaining small and simple. Neither happened. Now I want toybox to spread down into android and ride the smartphone up as it displaces the PC the way the PC displaced the minicomputer, and that displaced the mainframe before it.

And before you say "that's impossible", google "Toshiba Dynadock" and imagine what plugging a USB docking station into an android phone containing a native compiler actually _means_...

Rob