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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:17:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyipnw_nysVOSpTZMHh-42JbBYwJ+hgY9uonCHY-1VWoLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350568304.56828.YahooMailClassic@web184402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18 13:51 Brian L. Stuart
2012-10-18 17:17 ` John Floren [this message]
2012-10-18 17:20   ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-18 18:32   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-10-18 21:07     ` Calvin Morrison
2012-10-19 15:31   ` Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-17 19:49 Aharon Robbins
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19   ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18  0:29   ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18  7:31     ` arnold
2012-10-18 13:54       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18  8:36   ` tlaronde
2012-10-18  9:03   ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10     ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-18 13:25       ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44     ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16   ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50     ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52       ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47         ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape

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