From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079546956.14420.730.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:09:16 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 34487f1a-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'm going to add my voice to Pip's and especially Rog's. I envy > David's ability to get things done in a totally novel environment (I'm > also a recent dot convert, thank you, David) and I have little trouble > sympathising with David's queries, understanding that not everyone is > as comfortable with English idioms as the Bell Labs ex-convicts are. It's not to do with english and queries, it's to do with understanding the system. As soon as I have time, I'm going to sweat reading the kernel right the way through, just so I understand what's going on. > As for those who have spent time on this list just to deplore David's > behaviour, I believe they should put a bit more effort, in a > considerably less anglocentric fashion, to understand where some of us > come from and what we are able to contribute. I think you're being a bit unfair.