From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:33:27 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <7549c110dcf793615cd08b32e2d93f74@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10811111146yc7dd458s2343adc3b7e96727@mail.gmail.com> <7549c110dcf793615cd08b32e2d93f74@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c5eacea-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> If corporate acceptance is the new measure of success, maybe we >>> should be using an XML based protocol extension. >> >> Corporate acceptance was always the measure of success. it's the old >> measure. And it works, unless you don't need to eat. > > i'm pretty sure that's not how plan 9 got > written in the first place. > > aiming for corporate acceptance doesn't seem > to me to be aiming high enough. > Given the number of people writing good code for Plan 9 and/or Inferno now versus 15 years ago it seems like aiming for "higher than corporate acceptance" doesn't seem to be enough either. -eric