Re: microsoft's plan 9 distribution

Lucio De Re <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.general
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On 2/17/19, Ethan Gardener <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I got excited for a moment, but then I saw, "This server contains protocols
> that support Linux metadata, including permissions."  It's going to be
> 9p2000.L or yet another incompatible fork of the protocol.
>
It's still an improvement over any predecessor, don't knock it! <grin>

> I'm still annoyed with Microsoft for not publishing an interface for network
> filesystem drivers;

Now, there's a waste of emotions :-). Those leopard spots - in this
case a corporate culture, with the emphasis on "culture", not
"corporate" - will be hard to shift, ever unlikely to change.

But there are signs of osmosis, maybe the colour will change.

Lucio.
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