From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32a656c20703141803o1f8c95dbs55803c8196e8c102@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:03:06 +0900 From: "Vester Thacker" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] Keeping the community healthy, and avoiding ethnocentrism. Was: interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno Topicbox-Message-UUID: 243ec30e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/15/07, bride of excession wrote: > > New paradigms don't come from casting the old ones aside, rather they > evolve from the old pardigms. But that can't happen if one is so > "idealistic" as to find compromise unacceptable. Give Brantley's comments a read: http://9fans.net/archive/2006/12/107 Plan 9's history and culture is different from other operating systems. I do not see the point to visit another country, and criticise it for not being more like your own. In my experience it is better to respect the differences and adapt, than to engage in ethnocentrism. Moving on. While watching this video [1], http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645, I felt it might be beneficial for our community to review the lessons learnt. HTH, Vester Thacker [1] Should the URL change, the video title is "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)".