From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7d3530220907171555r78328cdam49442bec0638491b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A5F5788.9080408@tecmav.com> <509071940907171136i211a82cehad73a10dd9d67ad3@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130907171408o2a47b8d2ya57452a9fe1fb9bc@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920907171533m6f302551u7c1958e3cfe504cc@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220907171555r78328cdam49442bec0638491b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:23:03 +0200 Message-ID: <5d375e920907171623u2e8e55fbn23d1aec577c890e6@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24f9b76a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:55 AM, John Floren wrote: > I seem to remember that you were offered the opportunity to take over > sources, since you can obviously run it much better. What? When? Where? > What happened to that? Maybe you can tell me, as you seem to know much better than me what has been offered (and by who?!?!). > I guess it's easier to bitch and be the rebel, rather than > becoming "the man" and actually being responsible for the proper > maintenance of the system. I take responsibility for the systems I have control over, which so far nobody has had any complaints about (if somebody has any complaints or suggestions, I would *love* to hear them and will do my very best to address them), and I have put a considerable amount of effort on, specially given that nobody has ever paid me anything to work on Plan 9 or anything related to it, and I don't go around screaming about how grateful and lucky the universe is that I'm capable of running a damned stupid web server. I very doubt I'm the right person to take care of plan9.bell-labs.com, and doubt much more whatever whoever controls it would want me to take it over, but if your claims by some cosmic miracle happen to be true, I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. Maybe you can tell us what *you* have done to help Plan 9? Or is your greatest contribution to act all obnoxious and condescending towards people that despite their limited and flawed abilities have tried very hard to do their best to make Plan 9 and related technologies successful and keep them from dying in total irrelevancy? One of my many flaws is that my memory is very bad, so maybe I'm forgetting what you have done... uriel