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From: Andrew Simmons <andrew@mbmnz.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:30:14 +1300
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>- Why arent there more applications and more developers interested
>in developing for plan9
>

In my case, apart from having to meet deadlines in the Windows world, and
being too cheap to buy a three-button mouse, what rather put me off
seriously pursuing Plan 9 for actual use is a comment some one, I think Mr
Presotto, made a while back to the effect that Plan 9 is a research system,
and that its developers are not very interested in backward compatibility
and only mildly in a large user community. While a perfectly valid goal, I
would have thought it unlikely to attract many people into developing for
Plan 9. As it is, I follow this list and browse the documentation in order
to gain enlightenment and in the hope of gleaning useful ideas for my daily
work.