Plan 9 was (and perhaps always will be?) ahead of it's time. In addition, though, it's really the minimalist aesthetic that has made it far outlast most other academic software. All that intelligent thought really did work to drastically raise the signal to noise ratio of every aspect of the system (e.g., its literate style of code, the high ratio of good ideas to lines of code, and that everything hangs so well together).
You'd certainly get a more resonant response if you too were to increase the SnR -- of your messages (perhaps by taking some of Plan 9's minimalism to heart). As of now, you could probably make the analogy that your emails have been to GNU cat as everyone else's are to /sys/src/cmd/cat.c. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > John Floren wrote: >> But can you cut it out with the fucking nuclear meltdowns all over >> this list? And fix your email client so it replies to threads >> properly? > > No, I am not giving up, and I am going to take this a lot further. In > fact, it is very clear to me what the absolute purpose of my life is. > I believe my father died too early, that he left "unfinished business" > in his life as a Law Professor. He didn't like what had become of > Patent and IP law. He didn't like seeing how it was being abused. > And I guarantee that he would NOT like the situation that his son is > in vis-a-vis IBM. > > So I am dedicating my life to this in a public way, and I am going to > dedicate every penny of money from my father's inheritance to fighting > the patent bs that I see in Plan 9. I am going to use my father's > money to try to carry on the work that i believe he wished he would > have done had he still lived - trying to make a difference in changing > the patent system. > > If my father was alive and not sick, I think he'd be writing academic > papers attacking the kinds of patent BS engaged in by IBM and others. > He's not, so I will do what I can - and so I intend to start > researching all Plan 9/9P related patents, and then attempting an > individual effort to fight them and have them invalidated in court. > > Maybe nobody wants to use ANTS, but I am sure it has plenty of ideas > in it that are about the same as those which get patented by large > corporations. I don't any of this stuff patented. Since I've just > released ANTS it forms a body of prior art (and is based on projects > on sources going back to 2009) so I am going to investigate every > patent I can find in this area, and then see if a crazy guy in a > basementy can actually mount an effective attack on the > Patent-Industrial complex. > > I really admire you Mr. Floren, your work on 9p streams is one of the > best papers done on Plan 9 with practical value. Why don't you see > that I am an honest programmer working in an honest way to try to make > the world a better place? Everything I do is trying to help the human > race survive and for human beings to be happy and care for one > another. > > I love you, and I wish you to be my friend, John Floren. > > Peace and Love, > Ben Kidwell > "mycroftiv" >
