9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:50:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61003220850q465b0a84l45efe5765ec7579f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1269216125.93911@swcp.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1181 bytes --]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:

> No!  I'm glad that it is open source.  I would not have even given it a
> second
> glance if it was not.  If Linus had access to Plan 9 as a base I think
> things
> could have looked very different now, and possibly for the better.
>

I don't think that's true... he's been on this list, and he's had his say
about how he thinks about the way things work in Plan 9.

http://9fans.net/archive/2004/02/1233

http://9fans.net/archive/2004/02/1229

http://9fans.net/archive/2004/02/1227

http://9fans.net/archive/2004/02/1225

http://9fans.net/archive/2004/02/1224

Dave


>
>
> > I don't get your reasoning. Do you want to say we would be better off
> > if they had not released it?!
> >
> > On 3/21/10, EBo <ebo@sandien.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> no, it's just badly designed. Working with a bad design gives me a
> > >> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doesn't mean
> > >> I have to worship at the altar, right?
> > >
> > > To bad plan 9 was publicly released just after Linus started working on
> > > Linux.
> > >  Oh well.  It's all about timing.
>
>

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2174 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-21  5:48 ron minnich
2010-03-21  8:30 ` EBo
2010-03-21 17:36 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-21 17:39   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 21:47   ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 22:02     ` EBo
2010-03-21 22:56       ` hiro
2010-03-22  0:02         ` EBo
2010-03-22 15:50           ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-03-22 15:57             ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-22 16:09               ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 17:22                 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 17:54                   ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 16:09               ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 23:19       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-21 23:54         ` EBo
2010-03-22  5:57         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-22 15:47     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 16:07       ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 17:57 ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 18:03   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-03-21 18:59     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-03-21 22:08       ` EBo
2010-03-21 19:37     ` Steve Simon
2010-03-21 20:41     ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 21:48   ` ron minnich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-17  4:37 ron minnich
2010-03-17  9:15 ` Noah Evans
2010-03-17 15:12   ` ron minnich

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3e1162e61003220850q465b0a84l45efe5765ec7579f@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=leimy2k@gmail.com \
    --cc=9fans@9fans.net \
    --cc=ebo@sandien.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).