This kind of thing was one of the foundational notions of Plan 9, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I often wonder how different our world would be if the

This kind of thing was one of the foundational notions of Plan 9, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I often wonder how different our world would be if they'd only had the foresight to release the code freely instead of keeping it proprietary.