From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <7D123B77-4F46-4E46-9883-6FF4D4128CA7@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:19:56 +0000 References: <13426df11003202248l4c8f9577ueab252b93b785810@mail.gmail.com> , Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening Topicbox-Message-UUID: ee1c8622-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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