i don't think i understand your point at all any more. more verbiage isn't going to solve it for me.
two small things, though: > Regardless, even if the sources _were_ stagnant... and even if > Plan 9 proper was used professionally by an even _smaller_ > number of developers, it would still need to continue in its > own idiom without disruption. Why? plan 9 is used professionally i work with half a dozen plan 9 professionals. it is a logical necessity that professionals are <= all users. > faire towards networking standards. Plan 9 chose not to fight any > network protocol standards (IL not withstanding), but it _did_ choose to fight > the POSIX/C99 et. al battle. you are mistaken. the general form of the plan 9 c compilers was set almost a decade before c99. and if you look at /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 you will see that the plan 9 compilers have moved toward c99. your definition of "fighting standards" seems to be not adopting what everyone else does. seems awful limiting for a research os. - erik
