From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:36:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018083608.GA682@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121017200938.198DB12BB12E@r-36.net>
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>
> The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
Having forgotten that a market for a sensible solution is a niche
market. Only stupidity and lack of reflexion can replace the "what do
I need" with "i don't know what I need ; so what everybody has is
obviously what I do need", hence a mass market (the Panurge's sheeps).
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Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 8:36 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
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 ` tlaronde [this message]
2012-10-18 9:03 ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop 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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