[foul]

The plan9 philosophy can't exist because there are no more three-button mice... UI aside, you have very cool technical differences with UNIX and most important of all daemons are file servers, you don't have to create or learn any new query style and path layout to work with them, you interact with parts exposed from a program writing (to) files and reading them, you don't necessarily need to read big chunks of data either if the program can expose just fragments.