Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:24:06 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 7 May 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Tim Smith wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 4 May 1999, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > > > Yup. I would hate to see SplashSnotters running amok and filling Ken's
> > > > mailbox with (ahem) indignant (ahem) replies.
> > >
> > > Its on linuxtoday now and its probably only a matter of time
> > > before it hits slashdot... the full interview is at
> >
> > It was on slashdot a couple of days ago, and the commentary there was as
> > idiotic as one would expect. E.g., Thompson is bitter that Linux has
> > completely overshadowed Plan 9 and he can't accept that a 21 year old kid
> > did a better job with the Unix idea than Thompson was able to do with all
> > the power of AT&T behind him. (And that example is not even from some
> > random slashdot anonymous poster...it's from a well known Linux advocate).
P
> If number 9 means that the 8 previous Plans were bad Plans, we should
> suggest Ken to immediately give up his current Plan and start
> something like Plan 9999. ;-)

Plan 9, as in "Plan 9 from outer space" the movie by ed wood, possibly
the worst sci-fi film of all time.

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