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Dave Lukes wrote:
>>  But the reality is that Uriel and colleagues are looking for a
>>  platform for fame and fortune.
> 
> I think you're being gratuitously cruel.
> 
> OTOH I _do_ think that some people around here
> are uncertain enough about their own opinions that
> they subconsciously believe that approbation == excellence
> and thus waste effort trying to convince others
> that plan9 is Really Good when they are
> really trying to convince themselves.
> 
> I, OTOH suffer from no such problem:
> I _know_ I'm right*.
> If anything, I suffer from the opposite delusion:
> I own a MacBook (unpopular) but not an iPod (popular)
> and I am deeply distrustful of popularity
> as a measure of anything other than popularity.
> 
>>  Sadly, Plan 9 is not "American Idol"
> 
> That's right: we're not all tone-deaf braindead egomaniacs.
> 
> D.
> 

Not yet. (PowerBook and totally uncomputerized vintage Marantz audio gear).

'Nam and things that make loud noises took care of the tone-deaf part long ago.

Anyone here will attest I'm diligently working on the 'brain dead' part as well.

And I was *born* an egomaniac...

Ipse dixit.

;-)

But 'Not guilty' to yet being convinced - in any direction, really, w/r Plan9.

Still wading through the chaff.

Bill