Re: [9fans] sad commentary

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

People do acknowledge the new free systems. Unfortunately, RMS got
them off it in a microsecond when 3e came out:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html

And I don't believe the Note at the top will change people's minds.

And even if we do manage to make people remember Plan 9, we live in a
world ruled by the standard set up by Windows 95. Even Mac OS X seems
influenced (the three buttons scenario - take a look at that "Ah,
minimalism" if you don't use that system). If people say "Plan 9 is
too hard to use" they will allocate blame to Rob Pike's rio before
reading his tirade on other windowing systems (which you can find at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/88/1-07.ps.gz)
. And I don't think they would be open to using Inferno, where the
windowing system has to be started manually and each and every program
isn't available from that menu. I'm not complaining, though - I like
them both - but I'm warning you.

On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Uriel wrote:

> No, slashdot has not slipped (but then, I stopped reading it a few
> years ago, and the comments there have always been most depressing).
>
> But the world has pretty much forgotten Plan 9 even exists (and lets
> not even mention Inferno). In a story about 9vx in reddit.com (where
> supposedly all the cool kids hang out this days) somebody mentioned
> 'last I got interested in Plan 9 you had to pay a few hundred bucks to
> get a copy' (or something to that effect).
>
> So, that is what anti-propaganda brings you, but at least you don't
> have to deal with clueless users... oh wait, never mind.
>
> uriel
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:21 AM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> this slashdot article almost asks for cpu
>> functionality for plan 9 by name.
>>
>> http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/06/29/1417247.shtml
>>
>> not a single mention of plan 9.  i hope
>> this is an indication that slashdot has
>> slipped.
>>
>> screens?  1978 called and wants its
>> terminal server mentality back.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>>
>