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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow
From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:21:37 -0500
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>>  - one significant place where Plan 9 wins is using it as a versatile
>>    base for building pieces that people use without knowing it's Plan 9
>>    (e.g., Sape's wireless base stations, Rangboom, xcpu, and
>>    many Inferno apps that Charles can't talk about).
> 
> I think we all want a bit more glory than that, but if we all convince
> ourselves, we can tuck Plan 9 entirely out of sight.  Problem is, we
> then don't get a community any more and Plan 9 does not have a
> profit-making organisation that can support it without the community.
> Or am I missing something?

It doesn't always have to be completely out of sight.  Good embedded
applications are free from the usual, `but everyone else is using windows'
arguments.  Just a minor point.