>> - one significant place where Plan 9 wins is using it as a versatile >> base for building pieces that people use without knowing it's Plan 9 >> (e.g., Sape's wireless base stations, Rangboom, xcpu, and >> many Inferno apps that Charles can't talk about). > > I think we all want a bit more glory than that, but if we all convince > ourselves, we can tuck Plan 9 entirely out of sight. Problem is, we > then don't get a community any more and Plan 9 does not have a > profit-making organisation that can support it without the community. > Or am I missing something?
It doesn't always have to be completely out of sight. Good embedded applications are free from the usual, `but everyone else is using windows' arguments. Just a minor point.
