On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wrong on so many levels. > > Go read the responses 9people gave the original poster. You'll see why it's > _right_ on so many levels. > >> Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler. > > A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people claimed > to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, "Plan 9 is not UNIX?" Ahem... > GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah? > >> "Everything is a UTF-8 [...]" > > Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email > through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words "שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם" > (Hebrew, Shalom aleichem) or "سلام علیکم" (Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my > address. Let's see if "the mail goes through." > >> "Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices >> and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from >> a Gopher network in Tokyo to a mobile phone from Mexico or have the >> filesystem report how much free space is left without running a million >> commands or typing a thousand lines of code. > > The path from Gopher to your PC--or it was a Mac that you had?--was paved > years ago on UNIX. Then the path from Tokyo to Mexico was built on UNIX, and > today it _runs_ on UNIX. Now, the real problem begins when you want to get > your cell phone to talk 9P-over-IP. > > Do you have a 9P client for your cell phone? You "wrote" it already? Does it > run on Java? Or Symbian? Or Vendor X's proprietary embedded OS? Did you do > it on Plan 9? Or did you snatch an SDK written for some other livelier OS? > > Go fool someone else with your empty rhetoric, buddy. > >> If you are not like that, leave. > > No, I _am_ not like that. I also _don't_ like that. And I've left. The post > was not for you to chew on, it was for the benefit of the thread's > originator.
take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too angry. iru
