From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:19:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7D123B77-4F46-4E46-9883-6FF4D4128CA7@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1269208924.7932@swcp.com>
On 21 Mar 2010, at 22:02, EBo wrote:
>
>> no, it's just badly designed. Working with a bad design gives me a
>> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doesn't
>> mean
>> I have to worship at the altar, right?
>
> To bad plan 9 was publicly released just after Linus started working
> on Linux.
> Oh well. It's all about timing.
It took nearly 10 years for Plan 9 to be released open-source, but I
think the bigger issue would have been people not "getting" the Plan 9
way then, just as they don't "get" it now.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-21 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 5:48 ron minnich
2010-03-21 8:30 ` EBo
2010-03-21 17:36 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-21 17:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 21:47 ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 22:02 ` EBo
2010-03-21 22:56 ` hiro
2010-03-22 0:02 ` EBo
2010-03-22 15:50 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 15:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-22 16:09 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 17:22 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 17:54 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-22 16:09 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-21 23:19 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-03-21 23:54 ` EBo
2010-03-22 5:57 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-22 15:47 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-22 16:07 ` ron minnich
2010-03-21 17:57 ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 18:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-03-21 18:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-03-21 22:08 ` EBo
2010-03-21 19:37 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-21 20:41 ` Bakul Shah
2010-03-21 21:48 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-17 4:37 ron minnich
2010-03-17 9:15 ` Noah Evans
2010-03-17 15:12 ` ron minnich
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