You have not read even a single word before replying. I said I do use Plan 9 for all the things that have to be done for my daily work.
Enough of this rant, time to write some code. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Having said that, but for web browsing, I'm quite >> happy using Plan 9 as an end user that mostly writes code, slides, and >> docs and reads mail. I mean, I use it not just to modify it. This does not >> mean I cannot use others as well. > > It's fine, if you're fine with it ;-) Do you ever visit any AJAX enabled > websites? Do you consider AJAX a superfluous technology? Do you switch to > your "other OS" machine--or reboot your current machine--if and when you > visit GMail's pages (at least to enable IMAP access for the first time)? > What's your opinion on good ol' non-standard CSS? Won't you ever want to use > one of these new "content delivery" systems, such as Microsoft Silverlight > or Adobe Flash? > > Do you sometimes need to write an XML document? Do you need to validate it? > Do you need to transform it? Are you going to write or port each and every > application you need for doing so? > > All these could "theoretically" become "supported" (that's different from > being "included") in an OS if it manages to gather enough public momentum. > Without that you can do only your "serious" stuff which excludes quite some > of the "good" stuff. Public momentum comes from providing "the public" with > enough incentive so that a small portion of that public actually writes what > the rest will need. > > Incidentally, I find it a bit hypocritical to do "research" (read: find out > how a system can Get New Jobs Done (tm)) on a system but turn to another > whenever one actually needs to Get Something Done (tm). > > --On Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:17 AM +0200 Francisco J Ballesteros > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Many of the ideas have been/will be applied to other >> systems, and that will affects end users as well. It's just that there's >> no need to use the same system for doing research and for, say, >> browsing the web. >> >> Having said that, but for web browsing, I'm quite >> happy using Plan 9 as an end user that mostly writes code, slides, and >> docs and reads mail. I mean, I use it not just to modify it. This does not >> mean I cannot use others as well. >> > > > > > >
