I don't see a link to Rob Pike's other contribution, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf http://herpolhode.com/rob

I don't see a link to Rob Pike's other contribution, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf It's really a very good piece, which I'd summarize as a catch-22. To be important you must be different. To be successful you must be the same. Linux solves that by being the same. (And indeed Apple, acquiring NeXT did as well.)