From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <38e05836ba818ab0bff80018f5bde6b3@quintile.net> <6748caf4-96a2-4b42-a418-1bf404305b56@www.fastmail.com> From: Lucio De Re Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:46:56 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] sources down Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1ba01e8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 There's the other side of the coin, too, just so everyone can tell I'm cursed with seeing more than one side of situations like this: no one can learn much from "private exchanges". So David's freedom not to publish a one-off ought to be weighed against the benefit that someone may be able to build on the knowledge he or she may have picked up from it. But I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and I apologise for that. At the same time, I would like to thank David: his contributions are going mostly unrewarded, the occasional show of gratitude is probably a good thing. Lucio. :-) On 12/31/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/31/18, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> This =E2=80=9Csend it to you privately=E2=80=9D ethos is a problem on th= is list. Why not >> make it public? > > I generally agree, but in this case he was forced to spend more work > (cleaning up, and documenting it). > From my experience with scripts of the same length the work to write > it is probably less than the work to clean it up and document it. And > the task has to be done only once anyway, so not worth it (Unless we > get the annotations). > > --=20 Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824 FAX: +27 58 653 1435