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Subject: Linux and Plan-9ness
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:45:48 +0300
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Markus   Törnqvist wrote: {
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:56:36PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
>instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one,
>conceptually) into the kernel.  Sure, it could be made to work, but not 
>without dropping our Unixness.  And if we do, we should start by 
>looking at Plan 9 =)

What's wrong with "dropping our Unixness" if it means taking an extra step
toward Plan 9?

Why is this a bad idea?
}

Please explain!