Vester Thacker wrote:
What is the purpose of writing an
operating system if you don't expect average folks to use it or
develop for it?
What is the point of developing a formula 1 racing car
if you don't expect average folks to use it or
produce aftermarket accessories for it?
I no more expect "average folks" (who are these, BTW?)
to use or develop for (or even notice the existence of) plan9
than I expect them to turn up at the shopping mall
in in an F1 Ferrari.
The following statements are provably untrue:
* Making something more popular makes it better.
* Making something better makes it more popular.
There are far too many counterexamples (Adolf Hitler, Betamax, ...).
So why do you care whether something is more popular?
Given a wonderful OS used by 10 people or a crap OS used by
10E6 people, I'll take the former.
D.
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