>plan9 never took off Why?

>>58377089
AT&T was scared to lose control of it like what happened with Unix so they only gave it to universities that would negotiate a complex license agreement.

As a result almost nobody had seen or used Plan 9 until 1995 when the project was being shelved in favor of Inferno and AT&T agreed to release it to the public in book form for $350 and with a license that precluded commercial use of any kind.

Between 1995 and 1998 the project was officially semi-abandoned, the license precluded any community external to Bell Labs from forming as license owners were prohibited from sharing patches with anyone but Bell Labs and Bell Labs itself discouraged writing patches by announcing that they were working on a new OS anyway (codenamed "Brazil", which would become Plan9 v3).

The project was finally released with a reasonable license in 2002 but by that point all the problems that Plan 9 solved had been solved by the rest of the world in a different and incompatible way. The fact that the project still doesn't have a modern repository doesn't help matters.

>>58377396
Shame we have to live with inferior software such as Linux and GNU.

>>58377089
It was better than UNIX, but not better enough to convince people (and companies) to switch.

cloud computing wasn't a thing yet

>>58377611
That's a myth invented by Eric Raymond with no basis in reality. You fell for #fakenews.

>>58377089
What's a disgusting meal.

>>58377582
Plan 9 was more elegant than what we have now (or what we'll ever have) but it also had its host of problems.

Linus Torvalds is right about user space filesystems: they are toys. Plan 9 approach to filesystem access is too slow for real world use.

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>>58377644
British food is the best in the world.

>>58377661
Is there any exciting innovation going on in OS development these days?

>>58377690
OpenBSD's tame(2) syscall

>>58377089
1. it was a research system, not intended for production
2. UNIX was good enough
3. license fuckery

>>58377629
This isn't tumbler m8.

>Plan9
>dead

http://9front.org/

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/9front

>>58377089

Licensing

>>58378029
joke's on you
the hashtag symbol # was invented by twitter

>>58378039
>Within the /lib folder, 9front contains plain text copies of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, the Constitution of the United States, and many other highly important documents that have immense historical importance and so deserve a place in the official documentation of the operating system.

kek, literally a meme OS

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>>58378029

>>58378109
Nothing wrong with having those documents come default with an OS.

>>58377089

if i ever tried to make "meatballs" like that my grandmother would turn italian and "hit" me

>>58377089
Unix was good enough.