On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:38:55 -0300 "VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO" <vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br> wrote:
> 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 depend on lots of unportable and outdated applications, and because 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). this seems like a rather narrow view of how the computing world functions. that aside, i feel this is probably moving off topic for -dev. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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