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Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 19:08:06 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:56:35AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Good evening.

Why do you always put the appropriate greeting of the day in your emails?

> > I have neither the morale nor the power to write even a single line of
> > code for this new  "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9
> > -- I merely intend to assemble the work that others are doing; I'm like
> > a child clumsily playing with lego bricks. The best that I can do is
> > help write the gluework to get it working together nicely.
> 
> So why are you discussing this, when you are not going to write any source
> code?

Because he doesn't want to invent a new window system and programming
abstractions for it, but he's interesting in using one if it already exists?
Why shouldn't he discuss it?

What a stupid, arrogantly elitist attitude.

> That is only a propaganda position and not a technical one. Propaganda is
> boring.

More wisdom from the IRC crowd.  What, collectively, have you people ever
done?  We're still waiting for Uriel's 9load replacement, if I recall
correctly.

	- Dan C.