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Subject: Re: [9fans] So quiet!
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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
>>
>>

'most punkrock'?  NFW!

The very endurance of Acme/Rio vs psuedo-3D and weird cube-rotation, bouncing
3-D'ish icons, warping and  'Genie' effects, tells me that by and large
Plan9'ers can still read. Moreover, probably would rather read a dead-tree book
than watch what passes for cinema these days - all gasoline bombs and
special-effects - whether on big screen or desktop.

A 'Game-Boy' or XBox crowd it ain't...

Bill