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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity
In-Reply-To: <6a2483a3e86ca91902d7199212d02f44@vitanuova.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:32:26 +0200
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In article <6a2483a3e86ca91902d7199212d02f44@vitanuova.com> you write:
>i think people that have been involved in this stuff for a long time
>forget the distance between plan 9 and other systems.  yes, most stuff
>is documented (often by implication), but having someone to talk to
>that knows about the system makes all the difference.  i think all
>david's questions have been perfectly acceptable, and i wouldn't have
>thought twice about answering them had they been asked by someone
>across the room.
>
>this system *needs* people with some energy to spare, otherwise it'll
>continue to decline the way it has been since the great scattering from
>bell labs.  if this is the way we treat someone who appears to have
>some energy and inclination, then i've no hope at all.  i'm ashamed to
>be part of this group.

Hear, hear!  Well said.

Arnold