From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <52AE2D84.4010403@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:30:28 -0500 From: Matthew Veety User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <546c45999f1379d06a0b58e47b8cb0c5@mikro> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d5c0110-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/15/2013 4:17 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > This whole discussion has devolved into a political left vs. right like > debate. Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell > Labs and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient > support from the user base at large, and it will suffer bit-rot until it > won't boot anywhere anymore. No. We forked it. If you could google better maybe you would know this. > Here is an exercise for fun too. Create your own written language, and > write a bunch of books in it. Have fun. Fuck you. I have better shit to do like make vt(1) work with OpenVMS. > Blake -- Veety