From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:36:54 -0300 From: "Iruata Souza" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <970551641B57BC6070158BA7@172.16.10.224> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <970551641B57BC6070158BA7@172.16.10.224> Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: d4799446-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: > All these could "theoretically" become "supported" (that's different from > being "included") in an OS if it manages to gather enough public momentum. > Without that you can do only your "serious" stuff which excludes quite some > of the "good" stuff. Public momentum comes from providing "the public" with > enough incentive so that a small portion of that public actually writes what > the rest will need. > like you do with your system, right? > Incidentally, I find it a bit hypocritical to do "research" (read: find out > how a system can Get New Jobs Done (tm)) on a system but turn to another > whenever one actually needs to Get Something Done (tm). > sorry if I can't write a flash player in two minutes. it won't happen again. iru