From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220801251029l67a510faq1e41ee0c707e443e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:29:55 -0800 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC In-Reply-To: <62f86a4eb6c8ecd765a5edf37055cbce@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080125174945.0D6295B30@mail.bitblocks.com> <62f86a4eb6c8ecd765a5edf37055cbce@proxima.alt.za> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 38fceca2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 25, 2008 10:09 AM, wrote: > > May be the problem is that people are treating plan 9 as a > > Van Gogh masterpiece when they should be treating as building > > material :-) > > I sincerely hope for your sake that you don't treat your next Van Gogh > masterpiece as building rubble. Or treat Plan 9 as some sort of Linux > surrogate. Why not use the real thing, considering how much less > wasteful it would be? > > ++L > I think the point is that people talk a big talk about how great Plan 9 is, but then don't do a damn thing with it. At least, that's how I read it. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn