[9fans] unfair?

[Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>]

Huh?  What are you unhappy about? I think that it is perfectly splendid
that you don't have to race to the hardware store every year or so
like the rest of us poor slobs because the software bloat is such we
need more hardware constantly to be able to continue to do what we did
yesterday before the libraries got so much bigger.  I am trying to 
popularise plan 9 in part because I want to be able to not spend all my
money on hardware as well.  And, God knows, the people who think that
all software has to be made by 1127 and not by other parties such as
themselves need a kick.  If not being able to run plan 9 doesn't do it
for them, I have no idea what will ... I think it is a marvellous plan.

But I am having serious problems here in Sweden finding hardware to run
a new file server on.  My hardware dealer, who loves me because I buy so
much stuff from him to run linux on, just phoned.  I could not get him
to believe that I wanted older hardware than the stuff he was going to
give me FOR FREE.  Anders and I need to go to the used computer store
to get something we can run.  Maybe hardware is just so much easier to
come by in the USA that you didn't notice that it is not so freely
available other places.  

This is not your fault.  Don't you know me well enough by now to know that
I am not blaming you?  When we get our new fileserver up, which will have to
wait until after the European Union, which is having a major meeting in my
town this week, goes home, I will fix this problem by doing a vmware port
if I can get it to work unless somebody has already done it by then.  In the
mean time ... well 10 years is an exageration.  I'm sorry for that. 
AND THE BITSY PORT IS WAY COOL.

Forgiven?
Laura