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From: Matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:48:12 +0000
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On Monday 26 November 2001 10:00, you wrote:
> dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com (David Gordon Hogan) writes:
> > 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 Plan 9 into old, outdated systems, rather than comprehending the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.
>
> What do you think the reasons are those people have for not such
> comprehension and lending of support?

intellectual inertia
satisfaction with the status quo
following the crowd
listening to the people who shout the loudest
fashion
no integrated web browser/mail reader/nntp client/html wysiwyg editor