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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: josh <joshnatis0@gmail.com>
Cc: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Clem's Law.
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:51:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfr2_FdCNiiT8PrP5gvbnBFjE_-fYv=6848SQZo8J9pH=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFZukdTS8q2=0tgPr4-bHjLy_5Dz762hOwfwuS=d80PkfsFYbw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 10:39 PM josh <joshnatis0@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> > My own take on this is what I call "Cole's Law" Simple economics
> > always beats sophisticated architecture.
>
> Cole's Law is a bit of a better name than Clem's Law :P. Clem has
> invoked his law on this mailing list in various contexts, check out
> the archives.
>

I thought Cole's Law was thinly sliced cabbage. .

Warner

Josh
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:58 PM steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
> wrote:
>
>> I thought this comment was very good.
>>
>> I went looking for “Clem’s Law” (presume Clem Cole) and struck out.
>>
>> Any hints anyone can suggest or history on the comment?
>>
>> steve j
>>
>> ==========
>>
>> Larry McVoy wrote Fri Sep 17 10:44:25 AEST 2021
>> <https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-September/024424.html>
>>
>>         Plan 9 is very cool but I am channeling my inner Clem,
>>         Plan 9 didn't meet Clem's law.
>>         It was never compelling enough to make the masses love it.
>>         Linux was good enough.
>>
>> ==========
>> --
>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
>> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
>> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>>
>> mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
>>
>>

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-27  3:58 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-06-27  4:37 ` [TUHS] " josh
2022-06-27  4:51   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2022-06-27  7:14   ` Steve Jenkin

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