Re: [9fans] So quiet!

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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That basically encompasses what I meant by "punkrock" :-).


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:31 PM, <dave.l@mac.com> wrote:

> I would suggest that we're the most eclectic.
>
> Try having a conversation with a bunch of 9fans that doesn't encompass
> several millennia of culture, technology etc.
>
> Also I'm fairly certain that a disproportionately large number of 9fans
> aren't CS grads.
> As with Un*x, it's the people who recognise the power and simplicity who
> are the fans,
> not the academic dogmatists and fashionistas.
>
> D
>
>
> On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:06, David Leimbach wrote:
>
>  on the contrary...  I have always equated the plan 9 crowd as the
>> "most punkrock" of the alternative OS crowd.
>>
>>
>> On 10/23/09, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
>>
>>> erik quanstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu Oct 22 22:54:41 EDT 2009, ericvh@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Everyone is busy drinking and debating protocol semantics.  I think
>>>>> we've managed to empty the coraid fridge of beer.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> skip, sorry about that.  we drank all your beer.
>>>>
>>>> - erik
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Tsk, Tsk,
>>>
>>> ..and here some of us thought that Plan9 team were all pointy-haired
>>> ivory-tower
>>>  types who drank only white wine...
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> ..ducks and waddles offstage...
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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