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

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

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
>
>