From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45F0574F.50209@village.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:34:55 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno References: <20070307084327.Y60404@orthanc.ca> <3e1162e60703071628q3c5e16deg22859ed62937505b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60703071628q3c5e16deg22859ed62937505b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bda98aa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 David Leimbach wrote:

So how did Windows get so huge? :-)

skillfully managing perceptions
building a worldwide network of "certified" people whose livelihoods depend upon increasing complexity
ensuring the support of the hardware community by requiring regular purchases of new computers
working behind the scenes to ensure that friends become decision makers
FUD