From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) In-Reply-To: Message from Lucio De Re of "Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:30:22 +0200." <20011108073022.H28798@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <13620.1005198233@apnic.net> From: George Michaelson Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:43:53 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 18dea37e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 God, time cycles get shorter. At least for Jerry Cornelius the loop is the 64,000 year 'small' circuit. As one who has never run it, but often pressed for wider deployment of Plan9, suggesting it could be bedded in as DNS servers, or critical infrastructure, I can only repeat the Al Haig line once again: In order to sell Plan 9, it was neccessary to destroy it. Folks, its a research tool. Its not a bet-the-farm-lucent-will-rise-again product, its not a tool for the masses, If Tom Duff can make movies on it thats way cool, but please, don't turn it into the kind of packaged crap its "finger-quotes" competing against. For me, half the pleasure of reading about this thing is that its obviously fanatically small, and reductionist. Making it any bigger will ruin it. No irony intended. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | APNIC Email: ggm@apnic.net | PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3367 0490 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3367 0482 | http://www.apnic.net