This passage seems to me to speak to the minimal spirit in Plan 9.<br><br><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">&quot;... the best choice of software is often no software -- and barring that, as little software as you can possibly get away with, and even then, only from the most reputable and reliable sources.&quot;<br>
</blockquote><div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001289.html">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001289.html</a></blockquote>
<div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;d add that you need a way to combine what little you have with other little bits, to build up a new, custom tool that does what you want at this moment.</div><div><br></div><div>I like the part about bluescreening the city block, but hope we&#39;re past the point where anyone would seriously think of wiring Windows that deeply into the fabric of our real-world systems.  I like to think Vista broke the upgrade spell, and remote computing will anyway make desktop OS choice mostly irrelevant.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Which brings me to repeat a question about Plan9, from another thread: if there is no real browser for the platform, how will Plan 9 participate in the &quot;cloud computing&quot; (r)evolution?  I suppose it would be enough to have a Chromium port, if Chrome and the Chrome OS gain traction.</div>
<div><br>Jason Catena</div><div><br></div></div>