From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@noos.fr>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:31:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017a01bffbef$28ec6600$03c684c3@psychobasketcase.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008010714.IAA13373@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
> To increase the user base, users have to want something that they can't get
> elsewhere, and IPv6 is the main example of something that _everyone_ might
> want, at some point. Most other wide-scale wants are wishy-washy terms,
> like "e-commerce" and "micropayments." (but strangely, not "security")
>
> 'Course, the fact that they don't want it _yet_ is telling.
>
they want it and they just assume it's for free: i've been
calling it 'lego block design'
--
Boyd Roberts boyd@psycho-basket-case.org
But I doubt if our present system [U.S. Army] will produce such
an individual. They are too: _abrasive_, opinionated, undiplomatic,
nonconformist, and effective.
-- Colonel David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, Ret.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-01 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-31 15:14 presotto
2000-08-01 4:18 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-01 6:14 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-08-01 19:31 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
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2000-08-01 23:42 pip
2000-07-30 21:45 pip
2000-07-30 14:24 Gu Qin
2000-07-30 14:39 ` Boyd Roberts
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