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.
>
>