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by wendroid 6022 days ago
We are in agreement, mostly :).

I don't know which professionals rings around were run, but again, who cares, that's just conjecture, the conjuncture was between a need for a free Unix, BSD sat in court, the GPL, LAMP. The result was the cartesian product that remains today.

In the world of worse is better, Plan9 wasn't bad enough !
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plinkplonk 6022 days ago
"In the world of worse is better, Plan9 wasn't bad enough !"

ha! Great comment! :-) I wish someone would write a book on Plan9 (like the Lion's Commentary book for Unix).

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wendroid 6022 days ago
There's this http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.pdf

and the intro to plan9 http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf

and, tbh, I've read the kernel source code and it isn't that hard to follow - which is one of the goals - there's even an LXR http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/?v=PLAN9

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