From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130317213705.518c0bd4b389a6bcf6b3fba7@potion-studios.com> References: <870af67bb795fb08dff2def563fbdfcf@sphericalharmony.com> <20130317213705.518c0bd4b389a6bcf6b3fba7@potion-studios.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:05:27 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?QmVuY2UgRsOhYmnDoW4=?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04339d4046dc3604d82f4af3 Subject: Re: [9fans] Tassilo Philip, you asked the perfect question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2da71738-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d04339d4046dc3604d82f4af3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2013/3/18 Tassilo Philipp > "Dude", give it some time... You are writing to a mailing list of a rathe= r > small, but _dedicated_ community, that is absolutely open to good ideas a= nd > design. However, I'd bet that a lot of us have a lot of things to do, eve= ry > 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 mi= ss > 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 wo= rk > through, etc.. You know, I see so many interesting ideas from all kinds o= f > 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 =E2=98=BA --f46d04339d4046dc3604d82f4af3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
2013/3/18 Tassilo Philipp <tphilipp@potion-studios.com>=C2=A0
"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 thin= gs 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-dominate= d world. I learned a lot through this list, and surely miss many of the Pla= n9 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&#= 39;t. Work, family, personal projects, 50+ emails a day to work through, et= c.. You know, I see so many interesting ideas from all kinds of people ever= y 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 hav= e the time. To read about it, set it
up, read some more, play aro= und with it. That would take at least 4-5
hours. Just to get a feel of it. =C2=A0I don't have that much free= time on a
weekday and usually even my weekends are full with per= sonal programs. It
takes me a few weeks to check something out.

But since then you have posted at least forty mails, co= mplaining that
noone gave you feedback. You've been working o= n this for a long time. You
know it inside out. But for us this i= s a totally new (and btw huge)
project. Let it sink in. ANTS looks interesting. I'm sure a few pe= ople
will try it and maybe like it, even use, and contribute to i= t. Just be
patient. Nobody likes if someone is pestering him abou= t 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 ha= s similar goals as one of their projects, which they
patented an = implementation for.

So calm the fuck down, it's all good =E2=98=BA

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