From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20131219192701.Horde.SY9Ugx_RqvQZsL4Ag9Qgag1@ssl.eumx.net> References: <3e1e9e6fbfa856a01013a2f51b8d244f@coraid.com> <34270f8ddb3fc06e71d4db496a891dd4@brasstown.quanstro.net> <20131219190715.Horde.XO9OJVgxxL1MHPuJzbAgHw1@ssl.eumx.net> <20131219192701.Horde.SY9Ugx_RqvQZsL4Ag9Qgag1@ssl.eumx.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:42:08 -0600 Message-ID: From: Blake McBride To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01183fcc6c8d8004ede85bb4 Subject: Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2807298-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --089e01183fcc6c8d8004ede85bb4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Quoting Blake McBride : > > There is a difference between valid arguments and club allegiance. >> > > 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. > 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. > > We don't owe you anything, including a defense of plan 9. > 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). > > > khm > > > --089e01183fcc6c8d8004ede85bb4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On T= hu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrot= e:
Quoting Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>:

There is a difference between valid arguments and club allegiance.

You have not demonstrated a necessity for anyone subscribed to this
list to give a particular shit about which of the two ar= e at play here.


It would take a long email = to properly answer that question involving human motivation. =A0I think I&#= 39;ll spare myself the time writing it, and the group with that information= .


=A0

We don't owe you anything, including a defense of plan 9.

Agreed. =A0You also don't owe your grocer, your = tailor, or your gas station attendant anything either. =A0There is personal= gain we all get by shared contribution.


Patches welcome.

I would be much more inter= ested in producing and providing patches if I wasn't in such fear of up= setting the Plan-9 philosophy. =A0(That is if improvements were sufficient.= )

I am very, very happy to understand technical reason wh= y things are the way they are. =A0I am also humble enough to know that ther= e is a hell of a lot I can learn from all of you and Plan-9. =A0Hitting roa= dblocks with "that's the way it works and should work" gives = me nothing (yes, the nothing you owe me).


=A0
=

khm



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