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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:43:08 +0200

From: Conway Yee <yee@bro...>
> 
> First, there is usually only room for 1 "killer app" in the market and
> Linux has already taken up that role.
> 

only thing linux has taken up is cpu, ram and disk.  it has not advanced
the state of the art by one iota.  dennis has a great line about the
state of the art and unix/linux.

open source is a lot older than linux.  readnews? [awful, but free]