From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <200407280408.i6S483P10762@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <200407280408.i6S483P10762@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <271A0AC0-E050-11D8-A047-0003939D461C@earthlink.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Justin Herald Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:39:46 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ceac520c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:08 AM, Dan Cross wrote: > ... > Yes, but bear in mind that Plan 9 wasn't really designed with world > domination in mind. It's a research system. That it evolved into a > very comfortable environment for the people who built it to do *other* > research on made it possible to pursue other goals on it is almost an > accident of history. So the question is, who cares how much support it > gets in the world? Should the goal of any system apriori be to attract > lots of users? I don't think so. It should do something interesting > in a clean, elegant way. But that's just my personal opinion. A good point, for 'tis a research OS (I know some of my classmates and I have had fun with it), but then again, how did Unix come about? I guess bringing with us the knowledge we have gained from earlier OSes also brought with us similar ambitions to get a stronger user base. I want to see a stronger user base so that the development and propagation of this OS realizes its potential.