From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-20 00:10:24 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours and 28 minutes ago)
> Its because I want to "Get my job done"™ that I use plan9.

Bite if you please. Hook, line, and sinker ;-)

What's your job?

1. Maintaining a Plan 9 system?
2. Programming a Plan 9 system?
3. Researching a Plan 9 system?
4. Or you got some job other than jobs created _around_ Plan 9 and you use 
Plan 9?

(1) through (3) mean Plan 9 is your "job." You feed off of it. Dealing with 
its quirks is your business. Well, that's your lot. Others are probably 
luckier.

If your "job" is not 1-3 and you have a "computer job" tell me who has 
allowed you to use a research platform in production environment? Are you 
at Rangboom or Coraid, or implementing one of the _few_ applications Plan 9 
has found in the "Real World?" Are you a freelancer? What sort of customers 
do you have?

What exactly do you Get Done (tm) on Plan 9? I mean, aren't there easier 
ways to do it? If yes, staying on Plan 9 is simply "fanity"--a la vanity-- 
and "fanity" is beyond reason; my reason, at least. If no, how come your 
job's so specific that can't be done on much more widely used systems? 
Probably it's just 1-3.

--On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:26 PM +0100 Steve Simon 
<steve <at> quintile.net> wrote:

>> Plan 9 and the related software just
>> isn't for someone who wants to Get Their Job Done (tm).
>
> Sorry, I have to bite.
>
> Its because I want to "Get my job done"™ that I use plan9.
>
> -Steve
>