From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011109092126.577D7199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu> From: pac Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:23:47 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1c395906-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> From 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Fri Nov 09 10:34:02 2001 >> Envelope-to: cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz >> Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu >> From: Fco.J.Ballesteros >> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu >> Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu >> Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu >> X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu >> X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 >> Precedence: bulk >> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu >> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> >> List-Archive: >> 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