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From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
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Date: Fri,  9 Nov 2001 10:21:23 +0100
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I'm starting to get tired of this thread.

1. Plan 9 is free software, you may like it or not, but it's free
software. The fact that It's not [L]GPL is not an issue.

2. The small user base is mainly due to the fact that it is really
hard to convince people to loose their applications in favor of
a new way of doing things; but this have been the same in
operating systems as long as I remember.

3. Nevertheless, the ideas are spreading. Looked at /proc on Linux
these years? At the attempts to use userfs on Linux? Remember that
some of the ideas are too radical for a unix system and may never
be imported to it.

4. Regarding your suggestions for improvements, I'm still waiting
for you to write something like:

	"Here is this piece of code of a plan 9 application;
	now, by changing plan 9 in this way, this application
	could be now as I show below (i.e. more simple,
	or more whatever)..."

Could we get back to tech topics and stop religious affairs now?
I'm sorry to be so rude, but I wouldn't like this list to look
like the linux ones.