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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@noos.fr>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9 
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2000 21:31:58 +0200
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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.)