From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4BC98362020000CC00026C96@wlgw07.wlu.ca> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:46:10 -0400 From: "Karljurgen Feuerherm" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> References: <201004170239.28944.corey@bitworthy.net> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 059a5478-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On the other hand: doesn't individual development suffers from at least = two problems? (1) lack of a common vision leading to potentially widely divergent and = incompatible solutions (2) lack of sufficient energy (manpower etc.) behind any given project = development to make any real headway. Presumably there's a happy medium between supreme bloat and minimalism? K >>> 17/04/2010 8:20:59 am >>> You (and I, even) may disagree, but history suggests that communal development as it is known now leads to irreversible bloat. So if you have a brilliant idea (not some grandiose concepts with little meat) you have to be able to deliver on it before anybody here will adopt it. Putting it another way, no one believes you when you claim that there is another path out there that will lead to Eldorado. Bring back some gold nuggets and you'll see an immediate attitude change. ++L