From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6a2483a3e86ca91902d7199212d02f44@vitanuova.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] insularity Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:22:50 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 339aab10-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > So I'm now deleting your messages on contact. oh for f***'s sake! ok, so david tolpin has been a bit verbose, (and we're naturally suspicious that his deep involvement with XML implies a fundamental lack of taste) but when it comes down to it, he's has actually dived in there and done stuff. most newcomers to plan 9 don't get further than booting the damn thing. i think people that have been involved in this stuff for a long time forget the distance between plan 9 and other systems. yes, most stuff is documented (often by implication), but having someone to talk to that knows about the system makes all the difference. i think all david's questions have been perfectly acceptable, and i wouldn't have thought twice about answering them had they been asked by someone across the room. this system *needs* people with some energy to spare, otherwise it'll continue to decline the way it has been since the great scattering from bell labs. if this is the way we treat someone who appears to have some energy and inclination, then i've no hope at all. i'm ashamed to be part of this group. > If you can't get over this initial conceptual hump, > then fuck off back to CrapOS and leave us alone. *cringe*