From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:01:42 +0100 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0deb5b90-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 25 Apr 2010, at 19:55, blstuart@bellsouth.net wrote: > >> Unfortunately - that means noisy discussion and collaboration amongst >> people from a variety perspectives and skillsets/experience. Which is >> anathema to 9fans lone-ranger aesthetics. > > I don't really understand this part. Why does porting something or > even > building an alternative distribution require discussion and > collaboration? *nods* "Discussion" and "collaboration" are required for the infinite- number-of-monkeys approach. That's a little sharp, perhaps, but just from watching the results of many-people, open-discussion kind of approach I have lost all faith in it. "Too many cooks spoil the broth" is not a new adage, and is quite as applicable to software as it was to was to anything in the past. I am seriously considering a fork of sorts, if what I'd like to build won't work with Plan 9 directly, but I want to have my goals very clear before I invite any opinion at all. -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis