From: Richard C Bilson <rcbilson@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:05:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310171605.h9HG5Po07882@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
> Opinions?
I don't really disagree with anything you say, although you seem to be
taking the most pessimistic view of things. For me, the bottom line is
utility -- sure, I may be living in a hovel, but I can at least have
some nice tools to make life a little less brutish. Not everyone gets
to decide what OS they use, and not everyone has "advocate plan 9" at
the top of their list of priorities.
I think people resist the idea of porting software to plan 9 because
there's a certain idealism to the system -- it would be silly to port
Mozilla, for instance, because the design of Mozilla is in opposition
to the principles of 9. On the other hand, modern Unix seems to be
without any such principles, so why not humor those who rely on it for
their livelihood.
- Richard
next reply other threads:[~2003-10-17 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 16:05 Richard C Bilson [this message]
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2003-10-17 15:36 steve-simon
2003-10-17 15:20 mirtchov
2003-10-17 16:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-17 17:08 ` Joel Salomon
2003-10-17 18:55 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 19:05 ` matt
2003-10-17 20:17 ` ron minnich
2003-10-17 20:20 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-17 20:26 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-17 20:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-17 20:54 ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-20 16:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-21 6:07 ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-10-17 22:18 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 1:38 ` okamoto
2003-10-17 21:36 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-17 23:38 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 1:21 ` bs
2003-10-21 10:14 ` Martin C.Atkins
2003-10-18 8:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-18 8:48 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-18 11:09 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-18 13:09 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-19 8:25 ` C H Forsyth
2003-10-20 3:28 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 7:04 ` Tristan Seligmann
2003-10-20 17:17 ` mirtchov
2003-10-20 10:35 ` Patrick R. Wade
2003-10-21 1:14 ` david parsons
2003-10-19 16:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-20 10:35 ` bs
2003-10-18 19:19 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-19 15:10 ` I RATTAN
2003-10-19 15:54 ` Richard Miller
2003-10-20 14:03 ` ron minnich
2003-10-20 17:03 ` jmk
2003-10-20 21:40 ` splite
2003-10-17 16:43 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-10-17 17:01 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-17 20:17 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-20 10:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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