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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by jjindev on Saturday August 10, 2013 @12:44PM (#6191680)
I don't see a link to Rob Pike's other contribution, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant"

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.)

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