Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

[Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com>]

Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Uriel<uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are such people out there, they just think that keeping ultra
> paranoid secrecy and perpetuating the perception that Plan 9 is a
> commercial dead end is somehow a good idea (yea, people are fucking
> nuts, but hey, I guess you have to be fucking nuts to use Plan 9, so
> who can blame them.)
>
> I have to admit that Coraid is an exception to this, and while they
> have kept their Plan 9 usage in a low profile they have been rather
> open about it, and have made huge contributions back to the community
> (something that can't be said even of Bell Labs, see amd64).
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/7/8 erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>:
>>>> I'd love to do this, but I don't think anybody's going to
>>>> match my salary to port drivers, do ACPI, add amd64 support for
>>>> workstations, etc.
>>>
>>> i told myself this for years.  it turns out to be a mistaken
>>> idea.  now that i know, i regret the years i spent doing
>>> other things.
>>
>> I certainly don't know anybody who is hiring people to do this sort of
>> work in Plan 9.
>>
>>> - erik
>>
>> --me
>>
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