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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:36:34 -0700
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dave Lukes wrote:

> Secondly
> <intellectual-snobbery>
> do we really want plan9 being used by Dummies?
> Look what happened to Unix.
> </intellectual-snobbery>

Entropy. You get it either way. Either nobody uses Plan 9 because we're
all too good for the unwashed masses and it dies because .... nobody uses
it, and it dies unknown; or people start to use it and it dies because ...
everyone uses it and it gets old and thick in the waist and dies.

I'd rather see lotsa people use it. If I can get old and die, so should my
OS; otherwise, life is just TOO unfair.

ron