From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1350568304.56828.YahooMailClassic@web184402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: Calvin Morrison To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf302ef94c072ae304cc5bc62d Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0021f98-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --20cf302ef94c072ae304cc5bc62d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Oct 18, 2012 2:34 PM, "Skip Tavakkolian" wrote: > > Erudite Glenda in Winter? > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Floren wrote: > >> Precisely. The correlation between what makes something > >> good and what makes something popular is small but negative. > >> One of the primary reasons I stopped using Linux was that > >> it was becoming too mainstream and just like all the > >> commercial junk out there. > > > > I too find Linux too mainstream: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png > > > > > > john > I used plan9 before it was cool -- full time philosopher/part time starbucks barista --20cf302ef94c072ae304cc5bc62d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Oct 18, 2012 2:34 PM, "Skip Tavakkolian" <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Erudite Glenda in Winter?
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> >> Precisely. =A0The correlation between what makes something > >> good and what makes something popular is small but negative.<= br> > >> One of the primary reasons I stopped using Linux was that
> >> it was becoming too mainstream and just like all the
> >> commercial junk out there.
> >
> > I too find Linux too mainstream: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png
> >
> >
> > john
>

I used plan9 before it was cool

-- full time philosopher/part time starbucks barista

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