On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:56:35AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Good evening.
Why do you always put the appropriate greeting of the day in your emails?
> > I have neither the morale nor the power to write even a single line of
> > code for this new "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9
> > -- I merely intend to assemble the work that others are doing; I'm like
> > a child clumsily playing with lego bricks. The best that I can do is
> > help write the gluework to get it working together nicely.
>
> So why are you discussing this, when you are not going to write any source
> code?
Because he doesn't want to invent a new window system and programming
abstractions for it, but he's interesting in using one if it already exists?
Why shouldn't he discuss it?
What a stupid, arrogantly elitist attitude.
> That is only a propaganda position and not a technical one. Propaganda is
> boring.
More wisdom from the IRC crowd. What, collectively, have you people ever
done? We're still waiting for Uriel's 9load replacement, if I recall
correctly.
- Dan C.
