> /n/sources/contrib/fgb/mp3dec.tgz No one can deny that your contributions have been invaluable.
I do think there's purists and there's pragmatists (sic to both there's :-) But there's also whingers and armchair critics who haven't yet figured out that some things are hard to do. Maybe we ought to dedicate wiki space to things no one is willing to tackle. What would make all the difference would be a valuable application that is totally dependent on one or more Plan 9 features (private namespaces, plumbing, distributed processing, etc.). But until we extend the field of applications, it is almost impossible and certainly very unlikely that the next spreadsheet-like idea is going to be based on Plan 9. At the same time, porting pseudo-Posix applications to Plan 9 reduces the pressure to produce Plan 9 native code. In my opinion, that defeats the objective of making Plan 9 or its descendants the platform of the future. Then again, Linux's first IP networking was a port of KA9Q. It sufficed to give impetus to the implementation of a kernel IP stack. One can't really fault that logic either. ++L
