From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13426df10903292040p20c315abs202dec77398e14a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <20090326180431.GA28916@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> <14ec7b180903261129m6e5d68e2r27484cefd521db3b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903261236j3dfa1c58qcbc2116b4a5ed6a6@mail.gmail.com> <3FD7E1D5-4CA2-4BEF-B24B-2DF1E51EC1BA@kix.in> <3aaafc130903292002n64910d8fnd960716a787d9b95@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10903292040p20c315abs202dec77398e14a3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:46:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130903292046v36a30813q8cdf93e006ffa632@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc5f358a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:02 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > >> There is always the possibility of leveraging the jailbreak, which >> would also let us possibly do something better than just drawterm. >> FUSE was ported to the darwin kernel, I don't see why 9P can't be. But >> I doubt google would want anything to do with that. >> >> Still a decent side project for someone who really wants to do >> iPhone+Plan 9 development. > > maybe I'm missing something but ... why not just do this on the G-1? I > mean, you've got a company (Apple) that you are afraid is going to > view what you are doing as criminal, or you have a company with a fine > that is designed to 3rd party apps. I realize the iPhone has some kind > of "cool factor" going for it, but ... who needs this kind of problem? > Where or even what gets done isn't that important to me, I'm just tossing ideas out. Drawterm on the iPhone would be nice for me, since I have one, but I have no idea how many Plan 9 users have one. Nor do I know how many have a G-1 for that matter. In my experience, these 'wow-factor' apps for phones get a lot of initial attention, but are never used seriously. Not to sound like a Negative Nancy, but how much utility will everyone really get out of such a port?