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Date: Sun,  3 Jul 2011 15:08:26 -0600
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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9
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> they've changed everything else in unix, why hold so tightly to the clearly
> unhelpful ideas?

because it's a cult. things don't make sense in cults. i encountered
the following quote the other day, which finally convinced me. you
can't rationalize things with this sort of thinking:

"It is out of question that git is becoming the standard tool to
manage code. It is incredible how clever Linus was in inventing it."
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Git-and-Linus-431001

oh, and there's the whole 'user-level filesystems are bad, mmmkay?!' debacle:

http://blog.gluster.com/2011/06/linus-torvalds-doesnt-understand-user-space-storage/

their ecosystem won't allow any synthetic filesystems past /sys
anytime soon, nevermind the auth bit.