From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130617184019.GB54367@intma.in> References: <4C33D9D9-6A99-43E0-A621-0D137564F441@lsub.org> <10DB3CE7-1903-4D06-8784-1416398302CE@lsub.org> <47813B77-1111-4199-8C51-726B55B39BB0@gmail.com> <108c856b42a813c1a5425ed4a4978387@ladd.quanstro.net> <20130617182056.GA1261@polynum.com> <20130617184019.GB54367@intma.in> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:15:54 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b414378ed21d404df5e6cfe Subject: Re: [9fans] 9n Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6668e420-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b414378ed21d404df5e6cfe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:20:56PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > > > > There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does "the" > > or "some" job for the writer but that the writer does not want to > > maintain (for a public audience). > > > There is no Hague Convention specification that you must maintain code > just because you let other people see it. Don Knuth springs to mind as > someone who is capable of releasing software and not regarding this as > some kind of Hemingwayan Albatross. > > It is annoying to have to replicate work someone else has done merely > because they lack the spine to release it. > > khm > > --047d7b414378ed21d404df5e6cfe Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code.<= div>


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Kurt H Maier <= ;khm-9@intma.in>= wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08= :20:56PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.co= m wrote:
>
> There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does &qu= ot;the"
> or "some" job for the writer but that the writer does not wa= nt to
> maintain (for a public audience).


There is no Hague Convention specification that you must maintain cod= e
just because you let other people see it. =A0Don Knuth springs to mind as someone who is capable of releasing software and not regarding this as
some kind of Hemingwayan Albatross.

It is annoying to have to replicate work someone else has done merely
because they lack the spine to release it.

khm


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