From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lost.goblin@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.153.68 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:24:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:24:06 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Vf_y2p39SjZFetvt08Aybrylles Message-ID: Subject: Re: alternative compilers From: Uriel To: 9front@googlegroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Iruat=C3=A3 Souza wr= ote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Noah Evans wrote: >> My goodness it can be (almost) civil. >> >> You bring up an interesting point. Plan9 was designed for Ken's music >> collection(Unix was likewise created for space travel). However the >> reason that Unix succeeded was that its creators were willing to allow >> the system to be used to meet *other* people's needs. It's not enough >> to scratch your own itch, you have to be cooperative enough to allow >> others to contribute as well. I find this attitude especially ironic >> given that, to the best of my knowledge, 9front was established based >> on the belief that certain maintainers were not being responsive >> enough to the needs of the community. >> > > You might have a wrong belief, then. I don't think we ever talked > about community. > > We are just a bunch of people who like Plan 9 and are changing it in > our own ways. > How big a problem is that? It is a problem for some people when it exposes the dysfunctional Plan 9 "community" for the joke that it is. uriel