erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop? > > poor special effects? > > - erik
The Plan 9 desktop was never aimed at the consumer market, which is what Miguel was bemoaning for Linux. Plan 9 was never even aimed the broader Unix / software developer market; it was designed mainly to please the developers (which is fine, they did great things, but let's be honest here). The broader point is that the Unix / Linux / Open Source "communities" seem to be plagued with a never-ending desire to reinvent the same wheels over again instead of moving forward. This may be part of what Rob had in mind in his 2000 paper about systems reearch being dead. And it may just be part of the human condition. :-( Arnold
