From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:54:04 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <140e7ec30811110954u44f8f9aeg788dc34b7d35ac69@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1226365206.17713.390.camel@goose.sun.com> <29302f743a99f05c1d9ac196b0245f81@9netics.com> <5d375e920811110830k1c91a401y5e6f39f1737d4240@mail.gmail.com> <140e7ec30811110954u44f8f9aeg788dc34b7d35ac69@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c418b9c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:54 AM, sqweek wrote: >> >> Absolute, complete, utter disaster. Completely hopeless. > > If corporate acceptance is the new measure of success, maybe we > should be using an XML based protocol extension. > I have two measurements of success: a) what keeps me working on Plan 9 related technologies in a paid position b) what switches people from using NFS, GPFS, or other horribly complicated solutions to something closer to Plan 9 .u satisfied both these criteria. I will judge the success of .L on similar metrics. Note that I didn't claim that either were optimal solutions, I'm less clear on how to quantify such a metric. Uriel's opinion of their worth certainly not among the candidates. -eric