Re: [9fans] quotefmtinstall

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Sadly, I can't buy nanodollars' worth of technology, even though it is
> being discarded daily in the western world by the megadollar.  Even
> the RaspberryPI is beyond reach

if you don't have the money for a raspberry pi, then you can't afford
anything that will boot plan 9.  so arguing that adding 1.7% (maybe)
to the size of /bin is an argument for the moot court.  and in that
moot court, one could argue that stripping the executables would save
much more than 1.7%.

> (we can approach western sponsors for
> funding, but that creates a form of slavery that africans are
> understandably reluctant to depend on - our leaders don't mind, but
> some of us have a social conscience).

i don't know what slavery has got to do with anything.
and i find the comparison to such a horrible crime distasteful.

> I understand the technological issues more or less well enough.  But
> where I stand, I can't ignore the social implications of consuming
> resources as soon as they become available.  I can think of a penalty

since this isn't a social justice list, i'll just address the techncal
assertion.

it is untrue that consuming an extra 3121 bytes
of storage per executable is consuming resources at the leading edge.
sd storage is sold in big chunks.  the smallest sd card i can find is
256mb.  a 1gb sd card is roughly the same price.  (and please no quibbling.
we've already established that the pi itself is too expensive)
you will probablly need a 1gb card, as the image alone is nearly 500mb.

- erik