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Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.
by rmah 7y ago
Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoWhy didn't Plan9 catch on/pan out mainstream?
- solidsnack9000 7y agoIt was proprietary for much of its life.
- kick 7y agoPlan 9 was intentionally not a product. They later tried to productize it with Inferno, but that failed primarily because it came a decade too late.
- MisterTea 7y agoThe Plan 9 source license was $1,000,000 USD (1.6M today). Not exactly pocket change. There was also the problem that Bell Labs didn't have a marketing team. Lucent tried to market Inferno and it did make it into a few Lucent products. If anyone is interested in Plan 9 then head over to 9front.org and grab an iso. That or there is an accompanying fork of inferno named Purgatorio of which there is now a docker image.
- jacquesm 7y agoThe power of closed source...
- zaphirplane 7y agoA lot of closed source operating systems or as they are called back then an operating system (open was the exception) were successful and failures. Just like today both closed and open OS fail
- 0xdeadb00f 7y agoYeah given the description above this sounds almost exactly like it.