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From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:13:45 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)
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Well that was a very long discussion, and a fairly pointless one
for the following reasons:
- It doesn't matter whether Plan X is a good idea or not, unless
  someone is actually going to try to implement it.  That is not
  at all clear at this point.
- Most of the discussion seems not to have been about the topic,
  but about each individual's personal pet peeves.
- This is all being discussed in the wrong place.  If there is
  a problem which Plan X could solve then it is that almost no
  one uses Plan 9.  To caricature, it would provide private
  namespaces to people who don't like pastel colours and
  bunnies.  But those people aren't on this list, so this is
  the wrong place to guage their level of interest.
--
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
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