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From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:13:31 +0200
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On 2/17/19, Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I got excited for a moment, but then I saw, "This server contains protocols
> that support Linux metadata, including permissions."  It's going to be
> 9p2000.L or yet another incompatible fork of the protocol.
>
It's still an improvement over any predecessor, don't knock it! <grin>

> I'm still annoyed with Microsoft for not publishing an interface for network
> filesystem drivers;

Now, there's a waste of emotions :-). Those leopard spots - in this
case a corporate culture, with the emphasis on "culture", not
"corporate" - will be hard to shift, ever unlikely to change.

But there are signs of osmosis, maybe the colour will change.

Lucio.