From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920708201828t6788af5x7ae24718eb0b6db0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:28:15 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory In-Reply-To: <1187659615.5062.971.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46CA078F.8000403@gmail.com> <3e1162e60708201512q1f8e418esce6666e888bbabb1@mail.gmail.com> <1187659615.5062.971.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae8271c8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/21/07, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 01:37 +0100, dave.l@mac.com wrote: > > It's the best OS in the known universe: > > True enough. But community makes half the value. I'd hate > to see it deteriorate to the point where every new member > gets flamed to death. This is Plan 9, when have new members *not* been flamed to death? It is part of the initiation ritual... > > > why can't people try to improve it instead of making it look like > > all the other pukebucket OSes out there? > > (Exeunt left mumbling and shaking head). > > Well, see that's the problem -- even the best kind of art might > need a bit of introductory appreciation lessons. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > P.S. boyd, is this you? :-) Nah, not harsh enough, but I can feel the ground shaking from the spinning somewhere... uriel