Re: [dwm] The StumpWM Experience

On 10/10/07, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> I think Plan 9 hasn't been a success because the Bell Labs made
> it available under an Open Source license too late. If they'd
> released it earlier there would have been chances of earlier
> adaption in todays OS designs. A key to Unix' success was that
> it has been available (in form of BSD and Linux) to students for
> nearly the last two decades, which can't be said of Plan 9.

I mostly agree, but it could have survived being closed-source if it
weren't for the glacial development process. On the other hand, I
don't think mass deployment was a founding goal of Plan 9.

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# Kurt H Maier