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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:46:52 +0200
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Dave Lukes <davel@iontrading.com> wrote:
>
> So why do you care whether something is more popular?

Actually, I do care.  The way I care in traffic that motorcycles are
not more popular and my life as a motorcyclist in greater danger
because of that.  But I do not care to make my and all other
motorcycles more car-like because of it.  It defeats all the
objectives of motorcycling in the first place.

And, yes, I rather like to think of Plan 9 as the hot-iron of the
OSes, the lean, mean machine.  The analogy is even better suited than
the Ferrari and/or F1 variety.

++L