I think that's an important point. People see plan9 as another "fun" "side os" for OS lovers.
Plan9 is actually a good OS. It certainly offer features that are much ahead of OSX, GNU/Linux, Windows, you name it.
The only reason why we aren't using Plan9 _right now_ is because nobody found a way to make money with it. Sad, but true.
Microsoft had similar ideas and pushed them with the Singularity project. It stopped for the same reasons. People are ok buying and developing for "more archaic" systems, that will probably (very) slowly evolve into something similar to what Plan9/Singularity have been offering for quite some time now.
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I think that's an important point. People see plan9 as another "fun" "side os" for OS lovers.
Plan9 is actually a good OS. It certainly offer features that are much ahead of OSX, GNU/Linux, Windows, you name it.
The only reason why we aren't using Plan9 _right now_ is because nobody found a way to make money with it. Sad, but true.
Microsoft had similar ideas and pushed them with the Singularity project. It stopped for the same reasons. People are ok buying and developing for "more archaic" systems, that will probably (very) slowly evolve into something similar to what Plan9/Singularity have been offering for quite some time now.