From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df11003202248l4c8f9577ueab252b93b785810@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003211447x61159036td8f217e9cc7052d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:50:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e61003220850q465b0a84l45efe5765ec7579f@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd48f0aabbde0048265a7ff Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef0293e2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd48f0aabbde0048265a7ff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM, EBo 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 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. > > --000e0cd48f0aabbde0048265a7ff Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:02 PM, EBo <ebo@sandien.com&g= t; wrote:
No! =A0I'm glad that it is open source. =A0I would not have even given = it a second
glance if it was not. =A0If Linus had access to Plan 9 as a base I think th= ings
could have looked very different now, and possibly for the better.

I don't think that's true... he's b= een on this list, and he's had his say about how he thinks about the wa= y things work in Plan 9.






Dave
=A0


> 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 g= ives me a
> >> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doe= sn't mean
> >> I have to worship at the altar, right?
> >
> > To bad plan 9 was publicly released just after Linus started work= ing on
> > Linux.
> > =A0Oh well. =A0It's all about timing.


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