On Mon Mar 8 13:04:41 EST 2010, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > You seem to insist on alien software, why is porting software from > > lunix a prefered solution? Most of the solutions are a.) either to > > problems we don't even have or b.) so awkward in interfacing you just > > end up writing a native fork anyway. > > That's simple pragmatism. Using Plan 9 without some of the Open > Source stuff is hard at least for some of us. And there just aren't > enough Plan 9 developers to produce alternatives. Considering the > number of useful (if poorly implemented) Open Source tools out there, > I'm sure I'm not being absurd.
regardless, this thread is turning into a trollfest. minds are made up. no one is being swayed by the arguments. (and all the arguments have already made the rounds.) i think the only way to redeem it is write some code. failing that, let's at least give this thread a proper burial. - erik
