From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Governance question???
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 10:57:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24031d67ad3f8cc1e953f86b510bf447@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1e789xon5.ln2@news.homelinux.net>
> Plan 9 has never approached Unix in popularity, and has been primarily a
> research tool:
>
> Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a
> compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor.
> Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust
> spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its
> position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system
> architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an
> existing codebase that is just good enough. — Eric S. Raymond[3]
the implicit definition of success here—popularity—is one i would
reject. popularity has nothing to do with fitness for a purpose.
- erik
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Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 10:14 IainWS
2012-05-14 10:32 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-05-14 10:35 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-05-14 10:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-14 10:43 ` Steve Simon
2012-05-14 10:51 ` Richard Miller
2012-05-14 10:55 ` dexen deVries
2012-05-14 11:54 ` IainWS
2012-05-14 13:05 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-05-14 14:24 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-14 14:34 ` sl
2012-05-17 14:57 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-17 15:38 ` dexen deVries
2012-05-17 15:45 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-17 15:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-05-17 17:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-14 14:00 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-14 14:12 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-15 9:23 ` Anthony Martin
2012-05-15 12:19 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-15 12:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-15 12:42 ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-15 12:52 ` Connor Lane Smith
2012-05-15 13:01 ` dexen deVries
2012-05-15 16:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-16 1:41 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-16 5:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-16 13:04 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-16 13:16 ` Robert Raschke
2012-05-16 13:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-05-16 13:49 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 14:03 ` hiro
2012-05-16 14:06 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-05-16 14:21 ` Dan Cross
2012-05-16 14:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 15:10 ` Richard Miller
2012-05-16 15:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 15:58 ` sl
2012-05-16 16:15 ` hiro
2012-05-16 14:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 14:11 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-05-15 12:42 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-05-15 13:54 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-15 14:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-15 18:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-15 19:05 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-05-15 22:19 ` hiro
2012-05-15 23:29 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-05-15 23:31 ` sl
2012-05-16 7:35 ` [9fans] rc behavior with rfork 9
2012-05-16 7:02 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-05-16 14:05 ` sl
2012-05-16 14:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 14:31 ` sl
2012-05-16 14:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-16 15:05 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-05-16 15:35 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-16 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-16 16:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 14:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-16 14:49 ` sl
2012-05-16 15:03 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-16 15:37 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-16 0:30 ` [9fans] Governance question??? kokamoto
2012-05-16 0:34 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-16 0:49 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-05-16 7:07 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-05-16 8:25 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-05-16 11:22 ` hiro
2012-05-16 12:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-17 0:56 ` kokamoto
2012-05-15 12:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-15 8:42 ` IainWS
2012-05-14 11:30 ` tlaronde
2012-05-14 11:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-05-14 11:47 ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-05-14 14:32 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-05-14 14:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-05-14 15:15 ` tlaronde
2012-05-14 11:21 ` IainWS
2012-05-15 15:13 Kurt H Maier
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