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From: Stephen Wiley <swwiley@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:44:15 -0400
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
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On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

> On 10/18/2012 01:35 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Greetings comrades.
>>=20
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0200 Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> =
wrote:
>>> This says a lot, rather nicely:
>>>=20
>>> 	http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>>>=20
>>> Having lived through the Unix wars of the 80s and 90s, it's the same
>>> story all over again.
>>=20
>> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>=20
> 1) Lack of modern GUI and GUI development kit
> 2) Lack of Object Oriented GUI configuration tools
> 3) Lack of a decent web0browser
> 4) Lack of a decent communication/messaging client
> 5) Lack of an Office Applications suite
> ...
> ...
> ...
> z) Last, but not the least, hate towards C++ and love for the Go
>=20
> --=20
> Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
> (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
>=20

Is this another one of those weird plan9 jokes?=