From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:31:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210180731.q9I7VFiR011300@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <108cc49f0db0ffc6d5f6fa4c40a443ac@kw.quanstro.net>
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> poor special effects?
>
> - erik
The Plan 9 desktop was never aimed at the consumer market, which is
what Miguel was bemoaning for Linux. Plan 9 was never even aimed the
broader Unix / software developer market; it was designed mainly to
please the developers (which is fine, they did great things, but let's
be honest here).
The broader point is that the Unix / Linux / Open Source "communities"
seem to be plagued with a never-ending desire to reinvent the same wheels
over again instead of moving forward. This may be part of what Rob had
in mind in his 2000 paper about systems reearch being dead.
And it may just be part of the human condition. :-(
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 19:49 Aharon Robbins
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19 ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18 0:29 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 7:31 ` arnold [this message]
2012-10-18 13:54 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 14:20 ` [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface Albert Skye
2012-10-18 15:41 ` Julius Schmidt
2012-10-18 15:42 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 19:37 ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-18 19:40 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-24 7:19 ` Albert Skye
2012-10-18 8:36 ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop tlaronde
2012-10-18 9:03 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-18 13:25 ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50 ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape
2012-10-18 13:51 Brian L. Stuart
2012-10-18 17:17 ` John Floren
2012-10-18 17:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-10-18 18:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-10-18 21:07 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-10-19 15:31 ` Dan Cross
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