Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

[Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 08:24:41AM -0600, Steven Stallion wrote:
> 
> Indeed. It's interesting that folks from 9front like to tout their
> development as "open" using tools that others in the community have
> developed in addition to their own. To wit, you seem to have gotten
> along quite nicely using the porting work I did for Mercurial in 2012.

I'm not sure what this paragraph means.  Can you clarify?  If you feel
something in 9front is misattributed or should be clarified as your
work, it will take seconds to fix. Can you be specific?  Initial commits
were in 2011, and I don't see much change to the mercurial code until
some CVE fixes in 2014.  I'd be happy to amend the record on your
behalf.

I also don't understand the scare quotes around "open" or the part about
using other people's software.  That's kind of the point of the license.

> (FWIW, I found this response especially entertaining after visiting
> code.9front.org; "Just Send the Money" indeed.)

402 Payment Required is my default response to search engine crawlers
and unpopulated URL paths.  code.9front.org returns that up front to
mitigate search engines, which otherwise beat the shit out of hgweb.
9front infrastructure is all paid for out of pocket by me and sl, so
we're not really interested in spending bandwidth on Google's bottom
line.  the actual hgweb pages (everything under code.9front.org/hg) have
working search functions.

the "just send the money" text is a decade-old joke about support
contracts and how they handle bug reports.   You may note that there is
no actual money-collecting infrastructure presented, because nobody
actually sends the money.

khm