From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:28:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60908030828rd467a34k5e1995549f95d96b@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175110247887bd04703e6a5b Subject: Re: [9fans] An excerpt from Syllable's description Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36746f1c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0015175110247887bd04703e6a5b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ,s/Syllable/Plan 9/g See that was easy. But seriously what are you after? Flamewar? Trolling? If you read 9fans you'll get more information than this little marketing excerpt about yet another obscure operating system. Dave On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman < bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote: > Computer scientists will tell you that their operating systems and tools > are fine, because they like them to be complex. Companies will tell you > that their machines or devices are fine, because they like to control > them by hiding requisite device specifications and, or applications > notes, even though you own them. Yet, some people remember a few > machines from decades ago that were different. They got run over in the > gold rush, but they proved that it is possible to build much more > helpful machines. And if it was possible then, it is certainly possible > now, because the hardware that computers are built from has become much > more powerful. It's the software that is often not working in the > interest of the owner. In the /Syllable/ project, we are using this > power to help the owner instead of the scientists and the big companies. > > Please comment the above in a Plan 9 context. > -- > Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 > Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 > Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP > Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/ > > --0015175110247887bd04703e6a5b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ,s/Syllable/Plan 9/g

See that was easy.

But seriously what are you after? =A0Flamewar? =A0Trolling? =A0If = you read 9fans you'll get more information than this little marketing e= xcerpt about yet another obscure operating system.

Dave

On Mon, A= ug 3, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net>= ; wrote:
Computer scientists will tell you that thei= r operating systems and tools
are fine, because they like them to be complex. Companies will tell you
that their machines or devices are fine, because they like to control
them by hiding requisite device specifications and, or applications
notes, even though you own them. Yet, some people remember a few
machines from decades ago that were different. They got run over in the
gold rush, but they proved that it is possible to build much more
helpful machines. And if it was possible then, it is certainly possible
now, because the hardware that computers are built from has become much
more powerful. It's the software that is often not working in the
interest of the owner. In the /Syllable/ project, we are using this
power to help the owner instead of the scientists and the big companies.
Please comment the above in a Plan 9 context.
--
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Registered Linux Us= er: #229709
Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Machines: #168573, 170593= , 259192
Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBS= D/XP
Home: http://werc.= homelinux.net/ =A0 =A0 =A0Visit: http://counter.li.org/


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