this reasoning is so ridiculous that i have to believe you're trolling. the U.S. Constitution has been the foundation for the rule of law in this country for 200+ years, and the Gettysburg address honored the fallen and the ideals -- equality for all men -- that they died for. why would anyone think that racist propaganda or hate speech should have equal space in /lib?
some 70 million people were killed during WWII, partly because some people believed the propaganda that is Mein Kampf. there's nothing funny about that. please, grow up! -Skip On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote: > The constitution and the gettysburg address are in there, too. > > On Nov 26, 2011 6:51 PM, "erik quanstrom" <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> >> > 9front seems to me to define itself as: having fun while getting >> > useful stuff done. With an emphasis in *fun* and in not taking >> > anything too seriously, while one the technical side favoring >> > simplicity and things that work. >> > >> > This might not be exactly the same original Plan 9 values, but seems >> > close enough. Of course in 9front there is also an element of trolling >> > and poking fun at itself and anything else, and I will be happy if >> > cat-v.org takes the blame for that. >> > >> > > to be honest, it's one of the reasons i've stopped following 9front. >> > > >> > > to paraphrase a saying in mathematics, it's not enough to be good >> > > you must also be humble. why do you think dennis' ideas took >> > > over? >> > >> > I think an important form of humility is not taking yourself too >> > seriously. For an example of this see Dennis' Anti-Foreword to The >> > UNIX-HATERS Handbook: http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf >> > >> > 9front can't claim to reach such exquisite levels of "seriousness", >> > but it tries. >> > >> > I suspect one of the reasons why 9front exists is because some people >> > in the Plan 9 community this days seem to take themselves and the >> > whole project a bit too seriously. >> > >> > Which is kind of weird for a project called after an Ed Wood film. >> >> uriel, what you say would make sense if the "jokes" didn't include putting >> mein kampf in /lib. >> >> - erik >> >
