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The State of the Internet Operating System
macslocum writes "Tim O'Reilly: 'I've been talking for years about "the internet operating system," but I realized I've never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face. This is that missing post. Here you will see the underlying beliefs about the future that are guiding my publishing program as well as the rationale behind conferences I organize.'"
Dumb peeple and dumb terminalz dont mix either.
Exactly - keep your CPU busy running SETI@Home while all your apps sit on a server somewhere.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Is there a daily prize for obviousness?
No, there isn't.
It does sound like everything Plan 9 was trying to solve and did solve to a certain extent.
The trouble is plan 9 was too early for its time and it still is.
There is a larger problem too. Ownership. It is clear who owns and responsible for
individual machines. But who owns the mystical "between the machines space".
Google? Government? United Nations? Can't pick which is worse.
Sounds more like he's summarizing the most popular services of the World Wide Web today, and calling all that the Information Operating System..
He missed porn.
"Does the internet go down a lot? I haven't noticed."
Then you are watching the wrong videos. They almost always start with going down.