From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:31:35 -0500
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> > So your solution is to gradually evolve Linux until it becomes
> > Plan 9, rather than just using Plan 9?
>
> The oddity here is that David's email contains the subtext that it's
> *bad* for Plan 9 ideas to be adopted elsewhere!

I'm just saddened that people are shoe-horning isolated ideas from
Plan 9 into old, outdated systems, rather than comprehending the
full elegance of Plan 9 as a complete system, and lending their
support to it.

It's very much like the New Testament parable about
patching old wineskins...

Really, Linux needs to be rewritten from the ground up,
along with all them GNU tools.  Or we could all just use
Plan 9...