Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:40:02 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>,
       Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, 7eggert@gmx.de,
       Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel?
Message-ID: <20051005194002.GV7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:16:19PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005, Marc Perkel yowled:
> > If you want to start thinking about DOING IT RIGHT you need to think
> > beyond the Unix model and start looking at Netware. Maybe in 5 years
> > Linux will evolve to where Netware was in 1990.

Ugly as hell and thankfully about to go extinct outside of dark places
where its malignant presense still lingers amidst the Shoggoth droppings?

> I think Plan 9 is a better goal than Netware. At least it was designed
> by people aiming for a better Unix rather than people trying to build a
> better DOS, and so is more likely to have a compatible philosophy.

s/aiming.*/with taste that doesn't belong in R'Lyeh/

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