From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5C4D0696-0464-407B-AB72-71CE0371C302@storytotell.org> References: <20090807140626.1c57db77.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <5C4D0696-0464-407B-AB72-71CE0371C302@storytotell.org> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:37:49 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10908071037p21887363kfbd14ef52f21f8c9@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d72474e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Daniel Lyons wrote: > My beef is that they were hot-all-over CORBA not too long ago. I expect in > another three years nobody will be using D-Bus, they'll be using some new > layer that sits on top of it... ad nauseam. Outside Plan 9 I don't see > anyone solving two problems with one technology; instead, they're just > solving one problem and introducing a new one. actually, corba is still in there if you use GNOME. ron