Re: [9fans] Tassilo Philip, you asked the perfect question

["Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>]

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2013/3/18 Tassilo Philipp <tphilipp@potion-studios.com>

> "Dude", give it some time... You are writing to a mailing list of a rather
> small, but _dedicated_ community, that is absolutely open to good ideas and
> design. However, I'd bet that a lot of us have a lot of things to do, every
> day - things that have nothing to do with Plan9.
>
> I, for example, I work in games. PC games to be precise, a
> Windows-dominated world. I learned a lot through this list, and surely miss
> many of the Plan9 ideas in other operating systems. I would love to spend
> 100% of my time to port software to Plan9 (which it is lacking, for sure),
> but simply can't. Work, family, personal projects, 50+ emails a day to work
> through, etc.. You know, I see so many interesting ideas from all kinds of
> people every week, and I usually leave my browser-tabs open, to look at
> them in detail, later. And guess what: often, I never get around it.
>

I second that. I wanted to look into ANTS since you first posted about
it, but I just simply didn't have the time. To read about it, set it
up, read some more, play around with it. That would take at least 4-5
hours. Just to get a feel of it.  I don't have that much free time on a
weekday and usually even my weekends are full with personal programs. It
takes me a few weeks to check something out.

But since then you have posted at least forty mails, complaining that
noone gave you feedback. You've been working on this for a long time. You
know it inside out. But for us this is a totally new (and btw huge)
project. Let it sink in. ANTS looks interesting. I'm sure a few people
will try it and maybe like it, even use, and contribute to it. Just be
patient. Nobody likes if someone is pestering him about something he's
doing as a favour.

And I don't think IBM will give a shit if the 500 people using Plan 9
has ANTS which has similar goals as one of their projects, which they
patented an implementation for.

So calm the fuck down, it's all good ☺

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