Very insightful comment. > > What does this all mean in the big scheme of things? Not a lot, although > it pays to learn from history. Things change slowly over time. Research > groups do interesting projects from scratch and build up a great set of > theories, we apply as much as we can of them. Some work in the real > world, some don't. >
Projects such a Plan9, Inferno, L4, etc. are not used because people depend on lots of unportable and outdated applications, and because the Desktop market is not interested in quality, just in prettiness. And it is the Desktop that dictate the rules (unfortunately). _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
