From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620512161626w496d9743m3f353824ccb6d7f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:26:45 -0800 From: Jack Johnson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] More Microsoft bashing In-Reply-To: <775b8d190512160800u11d58e86kb8035ff507ac3d1d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051216050830.GE15067@augusta.math.psu.edu> <4fe40a6eaaea00ef3c10298bb6a642c6@coraid.com> <775b8d190512160713u1e416e4el315f98f9d4e8227d@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190512160800u11d58e86kb8035ff507ac3d1d@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c972afd6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/16/05, Bruce Ellis wrote: > Sorry for being relevant to the mailing list. And actually, I should probably apologize and clarify. I didn't intend to be irrelevant. I wanted to bring it up because I had my own expectations that turned out not to be true, and thought it might foster good discussion regarding why it is the way it is in Plan 9 and whether that was a conscious decision or legacy or something else. Several people pointed out aspects of mod I hadn't considered--across the spectrum--so I'm grateful. -Jack