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> But this philosophy is lost on people who are used to the windows/consumer Unix world because they're used to solutions that violate the tools method of solving problems. 
This is not a fair statement.
IMO, the beauty of something is to the builder, the experience of 
something is to the user.
A porsche driver cares about how it feels to drive, not the geometry of 
the suspension or the degrees of freedom used to tune it.

Similary, one can keep the innovations of plan9 under the covers and 
deliver something an end user might enjoy(even if it means tab 
completion). (this is from someone who has contributed zippo (other than 
noise) to this list).