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Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2010 20:01:57 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> You seem to insist on alien software, why is porting software from
> lunix a prefered solution?  Most of the solutions are a.) either to
> problems we don't even have or b.) so awkward in interfacing you just
> end up writing a native fork anyway.

That's simple pragmatism.  Using Plan 9 without some of the Open
Source stuff is hard at least for some of us.  And there just aren't
enough Plan 9 developers to produce alternatives.  Considering the
number of useful (if poorly implemented) Open Source tools out there,
I'm sure I'm not being absurd.

++L