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From: Skip Tavakkolian <fst@rea...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What makes Plan 9 unique?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:54:42 -0800

I suspect that a lot of poeple are incubating ideas. Many of the nuances
are missed unless you start writing and experimenting with your own
filesystem, or services, etc.  The ease of developing distributed
(geographically and functionally) systems is the Plan9 revelation.  I sense
that the critical mass is forming.  Also there is collateral effect that
Plan9 is having on other OSes.

The problem for a lot of us is that we have very little time to dedicate to
our causes; Plan9 is one of them. I suspect that most of us work on Plan9
on our own time and equipment. Given precious little time, should the
priority be on developing Plan9-workalike tools for environments that would
never support them the way Plan9 can, or should we develop tools like those
being suggested?

[How the movie ends is entirely up to us.]

At 10:16 AM 10/29/2001 GMT, Ozan Yigit wrote:
>presotto@clo... writes:
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>> Perhaps because noone in the community that writes code has it as
>> a very high priority?
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>this is not the first time people made attributions to the community
>priorities, and i always wonder what those may be. here is an interesting
>platform that should be used for some important computational needs, but
>does it? i know a lot of people care, but what is being done with it?
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>[i worry that if not the actors, certainly the overall direction is
>beginning to look more like that of the memorable movie it was
>named after... :-]
>
>oz 
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