Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)

[Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:58:00 PDT Corey <corey@bitworthy.net>  wrote:
>
> The Plan 9ers have "successfully" prevented the Plan Xers from "encroaching",
> but it's the Plan Xers who are going to find new and interesting expressions
> of a Plan 9 based operating system, however in order to bootstrap, the Plan
> Xers need the experience and insights of the Plan 9ers... yet there's an
> antagonistic conundrum that prevents the two perspectives from peering.

You are worrying about the wrong things.

If you really believe in your ideas, go ahead, create a plan
9 fork and find time to implement your ideas.  Don't let the
naysayers distract you. If people like what you're doing,
they will follow you.  It's as simple as that. This is how
for instance DragonflyBSD came about.

And by the way, you have not articulated your vision of what
you want "plan X" to be (as opposed to what you don't want it
to be).  What use cases do you have in mind that might be
better served by plan X?  Are they important enough and
different enough to warrant a fork? Then come up with a set
of positive goals and an action plan on achieving that.  Show
that you can achieve a subset on your own and you will get a
far more sympathetic response. This will be far more
satisfying than arguing about "what plan 9 should be".