From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180607240823m64afc086pa0004eed8eb13369@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:23:54 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-Reply-To: <7d3530220607240804g4519f44ek67978a7f9176507e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <53f976bd0607231349m61fd0d1dw7fe71747699effd2@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60607231640o5f855965o91b3afd8fcdf3777@mail.gmail.com> <20060724074136.857521fb.20h@r-36.net> <775b8d190607240119h4b0bd62i1bd4acc9d91ba885@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607240804g4519f44ek67978a7f9176507e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8805c866-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Are you talking about the scroll bars on Plan 9? They seem to me to be > just like scroll bars on a plain old xterm, so I don't see what the > Slashdot morons would be slamming--oh wait, it's Slashdot. slashdot is also the only place where people would be commenting how restrictive the Plan 9 license is (sometimes even referring to the 1995 one, not even the 2000 one) while slamming the OS for not being up-to-date with whatever the current fashions are. yesterday's discussion was similar to a bunch of lemmings running around screaming "persistent objects! persistent objects!"... it must be that the 20 year cycle has gotten us back to the days of OO again. the most insight comes from the anonymous posters, damn cowards :)