I can't really disagree with most of your post. The reason Plan 9 or its ideas can't be resurrected very easily now is because every machine on the internet ha

I can't really disagree with most of your post. The reason Plan 9 or its ideas can't be resurrected very easily now is because every machine on the internet has to pretend to be UNIX and speak a thousand ad-hoc protocols. UNIX's many flaws have been papered over, one by one, by incredible brute force (instead of in one fell swoop). I'm only lamenting the fact that the 90s were a crucial period in the development of the commercial internet, and in another timeline it could have developed in a very different direction.