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Subject: Re: [9fans] [PlanX] Re:  Mars Needs Women
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On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:11 Patrick Kelly wrote:

> > A "thinktank" comprised of a single individual battling through the fla=
me
> > drizzles of a sensitive/reactionary social environment and/or twiddling
> > his thumbs on a mostly empty mailing list is...suboptimal
>=20
> So my work is suboptimal?
>=20

You seriously managed to interpret that as an indirect sleight towards your
work?

> > Despite my best efforts, I'm still seeing folks inferring or projecting
> > the following fallacies:
> >=20
> > * I'm being a troll who's objective is to embroil people in arguments
> > * I'm being a motormouth who wants nothing more than to gab on and on
>=20
> 	Yes, a bit.
>=20

No longer an issue - I'll keep further responses, if any, short.

> Stripping down the blender code base might be more work than it's worth. I
> haven't really looked at it so I don't know, but in general that=E2=80=99=
s the
> case. You may be better off with just writing from scratch.
>=20

???

It doesn't matter to me that it _might_ be this, or it _might_ be that -=20
I'm doing it, as in - work in progress - for my own set of reasons.=20

> As far as I've seen, and I may have missed this, you haven't mentioned
> anything about an alternate interface. You'd be more likely to get help
> with a specific project like that, than just say, hey lets fork Plan 9!
>=20

I've already made it clear several times over that I'm not covertly
lobbying for some specific project of my own specific ideas.=20

Additionally, "hey lets fork Plan 9!" is an extremely inaccurate summary.

> > In fact, "Plan X" is specifically for the purpose of facilitating
> > _various_ eXperimental/eXploratory eXpressions of alternative Plan 9
> > based operating environments than what is desired and possible within
> > the official distribution.
>=20
> So if I understand now, Plan X is just a test bed. Should your
> hypotheoretical ideas be valid and welcome, they could then be merged
> back.
>=20
> Remember to be thorough in your propositions, it helps everyone out.
>=20
=20
Won't be necessary - too much hostility, too much sensitivity, too much
suspicion is in the air for any sort of productive dialog to emerge from
this thread.=20

I'm going to drop the subject so that I don't make too much of a  pariah out
of myself - because I'll likely hope to still get help and advice regarding
Plan 9 in the future.=20


Peace