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: Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:30:11 -0400 Message-ID: <002101cade4b$4157d870$c4078950$@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: 05d3b948-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > > You can be right about the manpower issue. In no way could on man = build a bridge, but one man can build efficient software. > > > > 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. >=20 > 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. Sorry, that got a little more heated than I meant it to be. > > ++L