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From: Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] these are release of 9front?
Date: Tue,  8 Jan 2013 11:22:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357662135.2693.86.camel@wes-HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88a732387065dfe7d42050200dfc91c8@9front.org>

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:48 -0600, sl@9front.org wrote:
> > There are plenty of things in Plan 9 still in need of improvement
> > or even rewriting.  That's why it makes me sad to see our small
> > community being made even smaller when some of the most skilled
> > programmers direct their efforts into splintering off their own
> > little playgrounds instead of helping to make Plan 9 better for
> > everyone.
>
> So far as I know the only projects not sharing all their source
> code are semi-official ones.

The big leaps happen when someone with a different set of assumptions
from those of the creators of a thing see it fulfilling a different
function. Forking is messy, as are inflection points.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-08 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-08  1:07 Francesco Cardi
2013-01-08  1:17 ` John Floren
2013-01-08  1:27 ` sl
2013-01-08  9:09 ` Richard Miller
2013-01-08  9:59   ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-08 10:15     ` Richard Miller
2013-01-08 10:36       ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-08 10:52         ` Richard Miller
2013-01-08 11:10           ` lucio
2013-01-08 11:24           ` Bence Fábián
2013-01-08 14:14             ` steve
2013-01-08 15:37               ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-08 13:48           ` sl
2013-01-08 16:22             ` Wes Kussmaul [this message]
2013-01-08 14:24           ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-08 14:33           ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-08 14:52             ` David Leimbach
2013-01-08 15:53             ` Nemo
2013-01-08 19:38               ` Richard Miller
2013-01-08 20:40                 ` mveety
2013-01-08 20:48                   ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-08 20:54                     ` Matthew Veety
2013-01-08 22:42                       ` Federico G. Benavento
2013-01-09  4:23                 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-01-12 13:48                   ` Richard Miller
2013-01-12 14:12                     ` erik quanstrom
2013-01-12 14:35                       ` Richard Miller
2013-01-12 14:47                         ` Richard Miller
2013-01-08 19:18           ` erik quanstrom

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