From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f0490802021630x565b53al44c4642a8ea7909@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:30:38 +1100 From: "Rob Pike" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-Reply-To: <47A50832.7000801@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <0e742be69697735012d14c6319071fa1@terzarima.net> <5d375e920802020941k6f662ab1s3ac9a41d6d95bb66@mail.gmail.com> <20080202182756.GA862@shodan.homeunix.net> <47A50832.7000801@gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40aeda00-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell > Labs reality distortion field. The syllogism goes something like this: > > All things not made at Bell Labs are bad > GNU is not made at Bell Labs > Therefore, GNU is bad > If you think about what the letters of GNU stand for, you might appreciate that the forms are in mutual opposition. They provide completely different approaches to software. "Good" and "Bad" are value judgments. If you think GNU is the right way to build things, Plan 9 is probably not for you, and vice versa. -rob