From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:10:24 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <07545F457E74629327C5A86F@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor Topicbox-Message-UUID: 003fca82-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Its because I want to "Get my job done"=E2=84=A2 that I use plan9. Bite if you please. Hook, line, and sinker ;-) What's your job? 1. Maintaining a Plan 9 system? 2. Programming a Plan 9 system? 3. Researching a Plan 9 system? 4. Or you got some job other than jobs created _around_ Plan 9 and you use=20 Plan 9? (1) through (3) mean Plan 9 is your "job." You feed off of it. Dealing with = its quirks is your business. Well, that's your lot. Others are probably=20 luckier. If your "job" is not 1-3 and you have a "computer job" tell me who has=20 allowed you to use a research platform in production environment? Are you=20 at Rangboom or Coraid, or implementing one of the _few_ applications Plan 9 = has found in the "Real World?" Are you a freelancer? What sort of customers = do you have? What exactly do you Get Done (tm) on Plan 9? I mean, aren't there easier=20 ways to do it? If yes, staying on Plan 9 is simply "fanity"--a la vanity--=20 and "fanity" is beyond reason; my reason, at least. If no, how come your=20 job's so specific that can't be done on much more widely used systems?=20 Probably it's just 1-3. --On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:26 PM +0100 Steve Simon=20 wrote: >> Plan 9 and the related software just >> isn't for someone who wants to Get Their Job Done (tm). > > Sorry, I have to bite. > > Its because I want to "Get my job done"=E2=84=A2 that I use plan9. > > -Steve >