I've been thinking about this some more.

It's clear that some people expected more. But I still feel it's quite
unfair to blame Sonic. He communicated very well what he would do here
on MZ. If this wasn't what people wanted, we should have reacted
before, not now.

I also think it's unfair to put all the blame on the bounty
administrators. Maybe they did a mistake, but they surely could have
gotten more and better advice here on MZ.

In the end, the weird thing about this is that while everyone knew
that there was already a TCP stack being worked on for years, tested
and improved by the most knowledgeable MorphOS people for a long time,
most people still thought it was a good idea to give Sonic the
go-ahead to port an old stack. Again we can't blame Sonic - writing a
completely new stack is a *huge* job and the old AmiTCP sources he
used was pretty much the only option.

But ok, for some reason most people seem to have agreed it was a good
idea. Only a few voices had anything different to say.

Anyway, it's not the end of the world. This bounty system is a tricky
thing and we can't expect a total success every time.

But if we really want a better native TCP stack, I think we should
make a serious attempt to persuade laire to finish and release his
effort. Maybe we could start by making some poll to see what people
want, if people are willing to pay, and which project they would
rather support in that case. Too bad laire's DVI poll didn't get
enough interest, but evidently there is more interest in a TCP stack..
I just hope this debacle hasn't put people off too much. And I'm sure
there are people who didn't contribute to the previous bounty, who
would put in something to get laire's stack released. At least I
would.