Schooling Erik on this list is priceless. Such entertainment. Well if it dies it dies. It wasn't a bad run. Plan 9 has been around longer than Linux. But now that we have failed to heed your warning. Woe us.
This whole discussion has devolved into all the exact same discussions when someone comes to save us from ourselves. If you are too lazy to look into the archives at least read this: http://jfloren.net/b/2012/4/27/0 2013/12/15 Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> > This whole discussion has devolved into a political left vs. right like > debate. Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs > and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient support > from the user base at large, and it will suffer bit-rot until it won't > boot anywhere anymore. > > Here is an exercise for fun too. Create your own written language, and > write a bunch of books in it. Have fun. > > Blake > > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote: > >> > "major piece among many" can be more precisely stated as "many pieces >> among >> > many in order for the platform to achieve a critical mass of users". >> >> the metaphor "critical mass" is really tiresome one. it does not apply >> to operating systems. if one person finds the os useful, then that's >> enough. >> >> i'm not entirely clear how this metaphor is supposed to be interpreted, >> but >> perhaps the idea is that with lots of users, lots of software gets >> written and >> clearly more is better. >> >> or maybe not. plan 9 is a research system. for me that means we use it >> as >> it makes doing new and interesting things, or the same thing in an >> interesting >> way easy. so having piles of ported software is at best a distraction. >> >> - erik >> >> >
