From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard C Bilson <rcbilson@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <200310171605.h9HG5Po07882@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
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> 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