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From: Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 00:13:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a297000905221513v4f51fc95qa532eccfd9468d11@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920905221415u2fab4bfchc5ec2ca90da3c12b@mail.gmail.com>

Uriel here's an honest question, would you stop complaining if you had
your own account on the murray hill version of plan9 will full access
to the venti? You'd also have the freedom to do whatever you want with
it.

Yes or no.

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something that is totally unreliable, no matter how cool, is not very useful.
>
> And I think anyone that has limited time, and who wants to get
> something done, will pick "very reliable but totally shit" over "very
> unreliable but very cool" every single time.
>
> Also there is little reason for Plan 9 servers to be unreliable,
> others with very little resources have managed to run public Plan 9
> servers in their spare time that have proved to be much more reliable
> than sources.
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM,  <dave.l@mac.com> wrote:
>>> You may think it's a question of money (you mentioned it is for free).
>>> It's not. There are many projects out, totally for free, but reliable.
>>> When I do something it must be reliable, or it's worth criticizing.
>>
>> Firstly if sources goes down, no-one dies so it's not a big deal.
>>
>> Secondly, given the choice between "a bit unreliable but very cool"
>> and "very reliable but totally shit", I know which I will take.
>>
>> D
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-22 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22 16:34 Rudolf Sykora
2009-05-22 16:51 ` ron minnich
2009-05-22 17:12   ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-22 17:23   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-05-22 20:52     ` dave.l
2009-05-22 21:15       ` Uriel
2009-05-22 22:13         ` Noah Evans [this message]
2009-05-22 22:18         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-05-22 23:06           ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-05-22 23:42             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-05-22 23:54               ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-05-23  2:28                 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-05-22 21:09     ` Uriel
2009-05-22 21:31     ` ron minnich
2009-05-22 21:43       ` Uriel
2009-05-22 22:59         ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-05-22 21:05   ` Uriel
2009-05-22 21:13     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-05-23  3:57     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-05-23 23:59 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-05-24  0:17   ` ron minnich
2009-05-24  0:28     ` Anant Narayanan
2009-05-24  0:31       ` ron minnich
2009-05-24 23:27         ` David Leimbach
2009-05-24 23:38           ` jt
2009-05-25  0:22             ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-05-25  0:28             ` David Leimbach
2009-05-25  0:44               ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-05-25  6:05                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-05-25  8:28                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-05-25 10:07                   ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-05-25 10:39                   ` cinap_lenrek
2009-05-25 18:27                     ` Steve Simon
2009-05-25 19:25                       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-05-24  1:59     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-05-24  1:26   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-24 16:42 KADOTA Kyohei
2015-08-24 17:02 ` stevie
2015-08-24 18:04   ` KADOTA Kyohei
2008-11-02 18:51 Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-02 19:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-02 21:35   ` geoff
2008-11-02 21:58     ` michael block
2008-11-02 23:46       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2006-11-29 21:55 james.cook
2006-11-29 22:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-11-29 22:30 ` geoff
2006-11-29 22:49   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-11-30  4:41   ` James Cook

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