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I don't think this guy understands what research is and what it's good for. He even says that the AT&T Research Group "were not used to create commercial softwa
by dn3500 4y ago
I don't think this guy understands what research is and what it's good for. He even says that the AT&T Research Group "were not used to create commercial software and AT&T has never been in the software business" as if that's a bad thing.
- asveikau 4y agoYeah it's kind of weird that he acknowledges UTF-8 came from there and simultaneously calls it a failure. UTF-8 alone would make it a success.
- pjmlp 4y agoWell, that is how UNIX got its free beer adoption, which workstation startups like Sun took to their advantage. Plan 9 and Inferno failed at that, because AT&T had already changed by then, and there was no more free beer.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoYeah it always sounds like such a bad take when people use research operating systems as some kind of failure case against giant commercial behemoths which have a totally different model of operation and goals. Key word: RESEARCH. OpenBSD gets a lot of flak for this, which is funny because outside of its performance issues which are somewhat the result of all the mitigations, people sure love taking things that were first implemented there and using it in stuff like Windows, or using software which is an integral part of that project like OpenSSH and tmux. I don't think some people realize that it's largely a research project led by professors out of universities in Alberta when they're really quick to heap criticism on it.