From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220612061653n57ecff6aw66349ed63a0edb92@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:53:01 -0500 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow driver development in Plan 9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220612061355n74c7b80ne1093798e73c4e93@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ebfa193a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/6/06, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Dec 6 17:27:37 EST 2006, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote: > > > if that were true, why has it taken almost 20 years to get a useful system? > > > > > > - erik > > > > > > > Because RMS is in charge? > > funny, nether gcc nor emacs took that long. so it's not an > inherent property of stallman's direction. so it must be > something else ... like maybe the design, or lack there of? > > - erik > I think when Stallman did gcc and emacs, he wasn't so much in the current state. Isn't emacs currently stalled, anyway, as he demands that they fix /every/ bug in it? It's a very worthy goal, but the way it sounds, he's doing it in a way that will make the next emacs release years in the future. I pretty much just consider him a few noodles short of a bowl and ignore the man. ;-) John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn