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On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:47, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
> >   That is a doable thing. But I fail to see what it strives to
> >   accomplish on the application level, unless, of course, the other
> >   "secret pact" was to bring all the GNU cruft (like glibc, libstdc++,
> >   etc.) along the way.
> 
> We would like to convince some people that Plan9 (kernel) is a useful  
> alternative to Linux without  asking them to rewrite all their  
> applications.
> 

I'm thinking in a very similar way as what Latchesar is expressing.