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Date: Thu,  2 Sep 2004 08:26:04 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world 
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dan Cross wrote:

> Seriously, though, I can understand why they might not be in a hurry to
> push something like Plan 9, but (a) if this is funding new development,
> why not pick a technically superior platform?  (b) why Linux?  Why not
> one of the BSD distributions?  (c) Can't technology win just this once?

Order of importance, with each thing decreasing at least 10x each time
- non-technical pubs
- technical pubs
- The Cool Table (as in grade school)
- third party apps
- good from a technical point of view
- superior design

so the last item is 1e-6 of the first item. Now you know how these things 
happen.

ron