From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:51:09 +0000 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... From: "Eris Discordia" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.23 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0e742be69697735012d14c6319071fa1@terzarima.net> <5d375e920802020941k6f662ab1s3ac9a41d6d95bb66@mail.gmail.com> <20080202182756.GA862@shodan.homeunix.net> <47A50832.7000801@gmail.com> <7359f0490802021630x565b53al44c4642a8ea7909@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7359f0490802021630x565b53al44c4642a8ea7909@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 419c95c4-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:30:38 -0000, Rob Pike wrote: >> An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell >> Labs reality distortion field. The syllogism goes something like this: >> >> All things not made at Bell Labs are bad >> GNU is not made at Bell Labs >> Therefore, GNU is bad >> > > If you think about what the letters of GNU stand for, you might > appreciate > that the forms are in mutual opposition. They provide completely > different > approaches to software. "Good" and "Bad" are value judgments. If > you think GNU is the right way to build things, Plan 9 is probably not > for you, and vice versa. > > -rob Is that "the" Rob Pike? "The R?" If so, please accept me humble reverence, sire! Hallowed be thy practice (of programming)! P. S. Down here in my country, Iran, we have this tradition of inventing sacred things out of thin air. A considerable proportion of "the divine and the sacred" spilled all over the globe began with that frailty of ours :-D -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/