From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: From: dave.l@mac.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <3e1162e60910230706p7496c67cl1f60fb86f1a8519b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:31:58 +0100 References: <02c8c2d4168771f9117d1a7690be2f44@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4AE1B0F3.3010103@conducive.org> <3e1162e60910230706p7496c67cl1f60fb86f1a8519b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] So quiet! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f2d6776-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I would suggest that we're the most eclectic. Try having a conversation with a bunch of 9fans that doesn't encompass several millennia of culture, technology etc. Also I'm fairly certain that a disproportionately large number of 9fans aren't CS grads. As with Un*x, it's the people who recognise the power and simplicity who are the fans, not the academic dogmatists and fashionistas. D On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:06, David Leimbach wrote: > on the contrary... I have always equated the plan 9 crowd as the > "most punkrock" of the alternative OS crowd. > > > On 10/23/09, W B Hacker wrote: >> erik quanstrom wrote: >>> On Thu Oct 22 22:54:41 EDT 2009, ericvh@gmail.com wrote: >>>> Everyone is busy drinking and debating protocol semantics. I think >>>> we've managed to empty the coraid fridge of beer. >>> >>> skip, sorry about that. we drank all your beer. >>> >>> - erik >>> >>> >> >> Tsk, Tsk, >> >> ..and here some of us thought that Plan9 team were all pointy-haired >> ivory-tower >> types who drank only white wine... >> >> ;-) >> >> ..ducks and waddles offstage... >> >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> >