From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:41:36 -0500 To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <0250620855ddaf4e982e3062123aedd0@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <5e7c9d4a3be87f517338922303722d69@proxima.alt.za> References: <5e7c9d4a3be87f517338922303722d69@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: e48f1516-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Mar 8 13:04:41 EST 2010, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > You seem to insist on alien software, why is porting software from > > lunix a prefered solution? Most of the solutions are a.) either to > > problems we don't even have or b.) so awkward in interfacing you just > > end up writing a native fork anyway. > > That's simple pragmatism. Using Plan 9 without some of the Open > Source stuff is hard at least for some of us. And there just aren't > enough Plan 9 developers to produce alternatives. Considering the > number of useful (if poorly implemented) Open Source tools out there, > I'm sure I'm not being absurd. regardless, this thread is turning into a trollfest. minds are made up. no one is being swayed by the arguments. (and all the arguments have already made the rounds.) i think the only way to redeem it is write some code. failing that, let's at least give this thread a proper burial. - erik