I don't know Pike, and I don't have a beef with him at all. I am, in fact, working on a funded project which does take many of the plan 9 ideas forward. So, if that's what's bothering him, then he should get a bit more connected.
However, I'm always bothered when anyone says research in xxx is dead. In my experience it's more a reflection of that person having run out of ideas, and not that discoveries in xxx itself are exhausted.
Mostly half-truths. Okay, www.bigcharts.com says it runs NT, but *DO* something, and you get redirected to a machine running Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 on Solaris. Something similar at buy.com. I do a search and suddenly I'm talking to Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) on Solaris. Clicking on "Search Jobs" on monster.com gets me to a Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 machine. Clicking on "News & Information" at www.accounting.com gets me to IMDSJServer 3.0 on Linux. Micro$oft's claims are hollow at best. Blackthorn
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I don't know Pike, and I don't have a beef with him at all. I am, in fact, working on a funded project which does take many of the plan 9 ideas forward. So, if that's what's bothering him, then he should get a bit more connected.
However, I'm always bothered when anyone says
research in xxx is dead. In my experience it's more a reflection of that person having run out
of ideas, and not that discoveries in xxx itself are exhausted.
Mostly half-truths. Okay, www.bigcharts.com says it runs NT, but *DO* something, and you get redirected to a machine running Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 on Solaris. Something similar at buy.com. I do a search and suddenly I'm talking to Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) on Solaris. Clicking on "Search Jobs" on monster.com gets me to a Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 machine. Clicking on "News & Information" at www.accounting.com gets me to IMDSJServer 3.0 on Linux. Micro$oft's claims are hollow at best. Blackthorn