On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Gabriel Díaz <gd...@rejaa.com> wrote: >> >> hello >> >> "How do I get my employer to need plan9?" >> >> Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other >> thread, this seems to be an almost impossible task, unless you make your own >> business or change you're employer for someone which already uses plan9. I >> guess. >> >> It is a bit discouraging for a fan who has the hope to get his employer >> need plan9 i think. I already gave up on this. > > I think size of company matters too. We're a really small group where I > work, and getting things done correctly is actually valued a bit more than > the means by which it gets done. > It's that mentality that let me throw off the shackles of Java for Erlang > and Haskell for a lot of the code I'm responsible for.
You are a lucky man. > I might even try to > push my luck soon and get permission to rewrite a small but really important > chunk of code in Go if i can prove to myself, and then to others, that it's > a good idea :-) > Dave > >> >> slds. >> >> gabi >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> >> To: 9fans@9fans.net >> Sent: Thu, March 18, 2010 9:04:56 AM >> Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware >> >> > Honestly, I think it would loads of fun to do, but I probably wouldn't >> > use >> > it myself once done, I don't have the free time to do it, and I don't >> > know of a way to do it for work... >> >> The story of my (plan9) life... >> >> I should add that there is also lots of stuff I _would_ use >> that I don't have time to write. >> >> my big question is "How do I get my employer to need plan9?" >> >> -Steve >> > >
