From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:54:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ef5ae17a4e4c6afa2f09e32cb0625c8@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d846ee8c0705160500v186355c2r2b6ea3b1659b78ad@mail.gmail.com>
> More than that; hobbyists, however enlightened, cannot provide continuing
> funding for Plan 9 development. Witness current hardware support. Plan 9 has
> to grow or eventually die.
Well, we've been warned.
Given the alternative between diluting Plan 9 to suit the demand for
snazz (who's going to deliver that, anyway?) and watching Plan 9
become irrelevant to the marketplace, I'll pick the latter any time.
As for the real alternative, which is for Plan 9 to become more
Linux-like which means more Windows-like, then what's the point?
Linux is there, Windows is there, why have a third contender? What
innovation does Plan 9 contribute that the public is actually
clamouring for?
In fact, I'd hazard that Linux's only asset is its cost, in the eyes
of the consumers. Sadly, no other OS can beat that cost. Actually,
delete that "sadly".
++L
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 8:43 Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?] Vester Thacker
2007-05-12 14:36 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad lucio
2007-05-12 21:56 ` Navin Johnson
2007-05-12 14:38 ` lucio
2007-05-15 17:13 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?] Dave Lukes
2007-05-16 4:10 ` Navin Johnson
2007-05-16 4:41 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM lucio
2007-05-16 4:46 ` lucio
2007-05-16 7:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-16 12:00 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?] Robert Sherwood
2007-05-16 13:46 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-16 14:03 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-16 14:56 ` Robert Sherwood
2007-05-16 17:54 ` lucio [this message]
2007-05-16 18:38 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM Charles Forsyth
2007-05-16 18:42 ` lucio
2007-05-16 23:32 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-16 23:51 ` Uriel
2007-05-17 0:13 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 4:41 ` lucio
2007-05-17 11:34 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 18:01 ` lucio
2007-05-17 14:26 ` [9fans] Wearables john
2007-05-17 14:33 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-05-17 14:33 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-17 15:20 ` john
2007-05-17 14:58 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 15:30 ` john
2007-05-17 16:38 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 15:24 ` ron minnich
2007-05-17 15:33 ` john
2007-05-17 16:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-17 16:14 ` ron minnich
2007-05-17 16:38 ` john
2007-05-17 16:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-17 16:51 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 17:04 ` Salva Peiró
2007-05-17 17:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-17 17:18 ` ron minnich
2007-05-17 19:04 ` tlaronde
2007-05-17 17:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-17 18:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-05-17 18:07 ` lucio
2007-05-18 16:54 ` Warning: Rant. Please disregard. [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM Cranky Old Bat
2007-05-18 18:49 ` lucio
2007-05-18 18:58 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-05-18 19:32 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-18 19:35 ` ron minnich
2007-05-18 21:21 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-21 23:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-18 19:54 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-05-16 14:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-05-17 14:32 ` Dave Lukes
2007-05-17 18:09 ` lucio
2007-05-18 12:36 ` Gorka Guardiola
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