From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Patrick Kelly" To: , "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net> References: <001d01cade39$05b76e50$11264af0$@gmail.com> <6a43cb9d30151acb73064cb08c17b45c@proxima.alt.za> In-Reply-To: <6a43cb9d30151acb73064cb08c17b45c@proxima.alt.za> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:54:27 -0400 Message-ID: <001e01cade3d$e250d500$a6f27f00$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05bcfb68-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > -----Original Message----- > From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On = Behalf Of lucio@proxima.alt.za > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:26 AM > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) >=20 > > You can be right about the manpower issue. In no way could on man = build a bridge, but one man can build efficient software. >=20 > Even here there is room for disagreement. Do you think a = community-designed bridge would be preferable to one designed by a > single architect? The seminal concept of "The Bazaar and the = Cathedral" overlooks the disasters the befell cathedrals designed by > consecutive architects. Yes there is, but the disagreement in between what I wrote, and what you = read. In the quoted sentence, I was talking about the building, or = implementation, process. What you then began to talk about was the = design process. > ++L