From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:02:05 -0600 To: "hiro" <23hiro@googlemail.com>, , "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> From: "EBo" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <13426df11003202248l4c8f9577ueab252b93b785810@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003211447x61159036td8f217e9cc7052d2@mail.gmail.com> , Subject: Re: [9fans] recreational programming of an evening Topicbox-Message-UUID: ee29422c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 No! I'm glad that it is open source. I would not have even given it a second glance if it was not. If Linus had access to Plan 9 as a base I think things could have looked very different now, and possibly for the better. > I don't get your reasoning. Do you want to say we would be better off > if they had not released it?! > > On 3/21/10, EBo wrote: > > > >> no, it's just badly designed. Working with a bad design gives me a > >> splitting headache. I make my living doing linux but that doesn't mean > >> I have to worship at the altar, right? > > > > To bad plan 9 was publicly released just after Linus started working on > > Linux. > > Oh well. It's all about timing.