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Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
Date: Wed,  7 Mar 2007 20:27:53 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> When did electricity exist, versus when did electricity exist in the home?

And we do not get a great deal of choice between AC and DC even though
there are places where the one is superior to the other.

It seems to me that many here want to have their cake and eat it: they
want those features of Plan 9 that are not in Windows and/or Linux and
are not likely to surface there any time soon, but they also want
those features that have made Windows and Linux the popular choices.

Thing is, the GUI, ease of installation, etc., are "populistic"
features.  Private namespaces, a consistent file interface, a powerful
generic communication protocol, Venti, Factotum, Acme, even Rio, are
all rough diamonds, you have to be able to visualise their value for
yourself before you can figure out how to extract that value from
them.  And that is contrary to the "immediate gratification" approach
that Windows and eventually Linux have adopted as their marketing
slogan.

If you try the same with Plan 9, you'll get at the end yet another
Windows with many of the breakages that have always plagued Windows
and are beginning to plague Linux.  Good luck.

++L