[stonogo]

You're leaving out many posts from earlier times where Pike explicitly tells people they're probably never going to get access to Plan 9. It was a research operating system, and even the name was selected to make it unmarketable.

In a nutshell, nobody ever cared how well it was received outside of Bell Labs.

[jacquesm]

In the context of those earlier posts the exchange with the browser implementors seems quite bizarre.