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From: "Wes Kussmaul" <wes@village.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world 
Date: Thu,  2 Sep 2004 17:48:55 -0400
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(c) Can't technology win just this once?
>
> Order of importance, with each thing decreasing at least 10x each time
> - non-technical pubs
> - technical pubs
> - The Cool Table (as in grade school)
> - third party apps
> - good from a technical point of view
> - superior design
>
> so the last item is 1e-6 of the first item. Now you know how these things
> happen.

Ron, you left out the top item:

- people with imagination and design sense and general intelligence not
being able to communicate effectively with / capture the imagination of the
masses of people less blessed, as for instance

- editors of non-technical pubs
- editors of technical pubs
- arbiters of The Cool Table
- creators of third party apps

There are so many natural thought leaders in the Plan 9 and *BSD
communities. We need more who, like Dan Geer and Bruce Schneier, are willing
to actually do what thought leaders do, add the voice of intelligent design
to the public debate. Otherwise the only voices they hear are those of
vendor PR flaks.

Wes Kussmaul