Re: [9fans] x10

[Kenji Okamoto <okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp>]

Thank you, geoff.

In a short word, my argument is that we should pay more respects to those
who are sharing their own time to others.   Of course, I know we can employ
more people with high quality if more money.   This is true everywhere 
professional works are concerned though.   

It's easy to say that quality of some free software are bad from the view point 
of skilled professionals.   However, we must remind that the programmer who 
are working without pay are shareing their own time, not full-time of them, 
which is same to us after Plan 9 became to a free software.   As you know the 
quality of Plan 9 itself is now going down, if we cpmpare it with ,say, Release 2 
or 3.   I think this is very natural, because we have now no full-time programmer 
of Plan 9.

Being said above, I still love Plan 9 because of its beatiful design and codes,
very easy to understand and to read!   I feel Plan 9 has her own future, if we 
could continue to develope its philosophy.   The problem is how we can get 
more programmer even though we cannot pay them money in a future.   I think 
Linux people may have a solution or at least trying to get it with struggling.

>So my
> preferences in code would be, in order of decreasing desirability:
> Plan 9, Research Unix, OpenBSD (they at least try to pay attention to
> security issues), *BSD, Linux, full stop.

My preference is only Plan 9, because I don't know Research Unix.☺

> Actually there's another reason to choose Linux last (other than
> Windows): 

I chose Linux because it's the best spread lunix, and I can use it as my own
base for working (actually, I may not need sources of it, because it's just a
running base for applications to me).   From this view point, I doubt there is 
any value to pay attention to other Unices, because we have Plan 9.

> I don't know if that answers your questions, Kenji.

You did, geoff.

Kenji