> Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it? that's the point. age is a red herring.
> What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body > ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex cluster, but it has > pretty wide adoption (even as a 'desktop'). What about OS X? Has > Apple's arrogance and secrecy saved it from.... open source > development? It seems like they release code only after they are damn > sure they've gotten all they can out of it. so you're saying that osx is not complicated? - erik
