From: pac <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:23:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cej-1011109122347.A03404@cejchan.gli.cas.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011109092126.577D7199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu>
>> From 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Fri Nov 09 10:34:02 2001
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>> From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
>> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>> Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
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>> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:21:23 +0100
>>
>> I'm starting to get tired of this thread.
>>
>> 1. Plan 9 is free software, you may like it or not, but it's free
>> software. The fact that It's not [L]GPL is not an issue.
>>
>> 2. The small user base is mainly due to the fact that it is really
>> hard to convince people to loose their applications in favor of
>> a new way of doing things; but this have been the same in
>> operating systems as long as I remember.
>>
>> 3. Nevertheless, the ideas are spreading. Looked at /proc on Linux
>> these years? At the attempts to use userfs on Linux? Remember that
>> some of the ideas are too radical for a unix system and may never
>> be imported to it.
>>
>> 4. Regarding your suggestions for improvements, I'm still waiting
>> for you to write something like:
>>
>> "Here is this piece of code of a plan 9 application;
>> now, by changing plan 9 in this way, this application
>> could be now as I show below (i.e. more simple,
>> or more whatever)..."
>>
>> Could we get back to tech topics and stop religious affairs now?
>> I'm sorry to be so rude, but I wouldn't like this list to look
>> like the linux ones.
>>
>>
I agree 100%.
-Peter.
--
Peter A Cejchan
biologist
Acad. Sci., Prague, CZ
<cej at cejchan dot gli dot cas dot cz>
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-09 9:21 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 11:23 ` pac [this message]
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:45 ` David Rubin
2001-11-12 15:34 ` Ronald G Minnich
[not found] <20011112170104.719C619ABA@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2001-12-29 4:03 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-13 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-13 15:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-11-13 17:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-14 18:02 forsyth
2001-11-14 16:08 anothy
2001-11-14 14:43 presotto
2001-11-14 14:29 rob pike
2001-11-15 10:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-14 9:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-14 8:29 okamoto
2001-11-14 5:24 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-14 4:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 5:12 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 23:46 forsyth
2001-11-13 22:18 forsyth
2001-11-13 23:27 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2001-11-14 4:38 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-13 21:50 presotto
2001-11-14 0:40 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 21:46 Russ Cox
2001-11-13 21:46 Sape Mullender
2001-11-13 21:44 presotto
2001-11-13 21:47 ` andrey
2001-11-13 20:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 20:17 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 22:38 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 19:58 presotto
2001-11-13 20:14 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 21:39 ` Mike Haertel
2001-11-13 22:54 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-14 0:19 ` William Josephson
2001-11-12 19:24 anothy
2001-11-14 9:52 ` Eyal Lotem
2001-11-12 19:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 0:19 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 2:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 2:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 2:27 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 10:34 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 19:15 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-12 17:06 anothy
2001-11-12 15:10 presotto
2001-11-12 13:14 nigel
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 18:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-14 9:52 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 12:17 geoff
2001-11-13 10:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-12 13:48 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13 16:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-09 9:38 okamoto
2001-11-09 7:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 14:55 presotto
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 10:17 ` John S. Dyson
2001-11-08 13:46 forsyth
2001-11-09 0:51 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08 10:40 Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 12:55 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 14:34 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-10 2:00 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:29 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:42 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-12 20:24 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
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