On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:

> Quoting Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>:
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>  There is a difference between valid arguments and club allegiance.
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> You have not demonstrated a necessity for anyone subscribed to this
> list to give a particular shit about which of the two are at play here.
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It would take a long email to properly answer that question involving human
motivation.  I think I'll spare myself the time writing it, and the group
with that information.




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> We don't owe you anything, including a defense of plan 9.
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Agreed.  You also don't owe your grocer, your tailor, or your gas station
attendant anything either.  There is personal gain we all get by shared
contribution.


> Patches welcome.


I would be much more interested in producing and providing patches if I
wasn't in such fear of upsetting the Plan-9 philosophy.  (That is if
improvements were sufficient.)

I am very, very happy to understand technical reason why things are the way
they are.  I am also humble enough to know that there is a hell of a lot I
can learn from all of you and Plan-9.  Hitting roadblocks with "that's the
way it works and should work" gives me nothing (yes, the nothing you owe
me).




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