On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If corporate acceptance is the new measure of success, maybe we >>> should be using an XML based protocol extension. >> >> Corporate acceptance was always the measure of success. it's the old >> measure. And it works, unless you don't need to eat. > > i'm pretty sure that's not how plan 9 got > written in the first place. > > aiming for corporate acceptance doesn't seem > to me to be aiming high enough. >
Given the number of people writing good code for Plan 9 and/or Inferno now versus 15 years ago it seems like aiming for "higher than corporate acceptance" doesn't seem to be enough either. -eric