[9fans] Re: Anyone still running plan9?

[Gary Capell gary@staff.cs.su.oz.au]

    It really irks me a little that so many people want *nix ports of Plan 9's
    window manager, or editor, etc... but nobody wants to take the really
    great ideas.  WHy won't somebody take things like the namespacing stuff,
    the 9P and IL protocols, the fileserver/cpuserver/terminal concepts... all
    the good "internals" of Plan 9 and make an effort to bring those ideas
    into modern freeware *nix clones.  Merge it into Linux, or NetBSD, or
    HURD....   That would be a much more worthwhile effort.

I'm guessing its a "bang for the buck" thing.  The effort/return
ratio seems much higher for grabbing (for example) the per-process
namespace.  Especially when there's a good chance that your submitted
changes would be rejected.

I can limp along without the internals, but life's too unpleasant
without something like acme.