From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <90a5f1175f3b6d1b52ed32839e2f4901@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:42:43 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-Reply-To: <47A50832.7000801@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 415c24b2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell > Labs reality distortion field. The syllogism goes something like this: > > All things not made at Bell Labs are bad > GNU is not made at Bell Labs > Therefore, GNU is bad if this holds, then plan 9 uses ip, smtp, dns, ntp, ethernet, x86, &c. these were not invented at bell labs thus using plan 9 is bad. - erik