Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

> I suggested that the sources could be included in the distribution, so they would not fork-rot as they are doing presently. It's always been the case that the Plan 9 distribution included "broken" sources that could not be compiled without external support, but were interesting enough to be published.

this is a good point, and this is exactly the kind of arguments that i
would like to see more of on 9fans.

> That changed some when Alef was dropped and in fact I saved the Alef development stuff and ported it to 3ed and 4ed because I disagreed with the decision. Note that I made a sweeping generalisation, for simplicity, much was discarded between 2ed and 4ed, and I find all that quite regrettable.

Interesting, thanks for sharing some of that history.

> I am certain that Cinap had good reasons for removing Fossil, but I'm not sure you have painted the entire picture for this audience. No matter, of course, 9front will be what 9front will be.

I agree with you that maybe "removing Fossil" was a little bit overly
dramatic, and maybe the goal was indeed to send a strong message with
this act.
otoh, i can understand the anger, after countless people lost their
data, trusting that fossil is certified by bell-labs and "totally
safe".

> I'm not going to argue with the semantic subtleties of "bad" as you interpret it, but I will privately consider your judgement and interpret your postings with a bias parallel to the one you have displayed toward me so far.

i hope you can reconsider for the sake of technical professionalism.

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