>infrastructure that shows the benefits of the plan 9 approach. And when you >finally do, It's not clear that you've got something better, because there's >nothing you can do after building it that you couldn't do before. Of course,
you can build resource sharing systems without spending years and years inventing yet more peculiar protocols and interfaces, and writing programs to implement them, to make each resource visible to others and never quite finishing (but nevertheless changing the protocols and interfaces often)
