From a big-picture business perspective, is it fair to say that Plan9 has been obsoleted by Cloud computing, ala AWS, Azure, etc?

Of course there's no end of minor technical differences, but that's not the point.
If you really want "The Network IS the Computer", you don't want Solaris or Plan9, you want Cloud.
And you can get it now, with proven ability for many years by now.

Maybe we could make a deal: We keep tourist ashes off the moon to respect their sentiments, in exchange for them allowing us to mine lithium in "Rotten Moon pass" -- a pre-descrated name if you ask me. (*) And also, in small print, "we" insist that anyone dying on the moon is allowed to be buried there. (For some defintions of "we" and "us", of course.)

Now, do we have a deal?

(*) https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Someone has to go first. And indeed, the first ones of anything are often perceived as "morons". But without a first, there is no second, or third, or other incremental pathway to success -- unless some good fairy named Scotty beams us down a working solution, complete with full documentation.

Yes, the USA is in total decline, we can't possibly compete with the Chinese. And USA features prominently in that list of "none of these countries has a modern and reliable operating reactor to make the design a reality."

But just change channels and read all about the amazingly successful US Navy nuclear-powered fleet. Proven safe, effective, and reliable. Of course, shippers would be wise to have a few soldiers-sailors onbaord to deter Somali pirates who wouldn't know better than trying to steal it with their bare hands - but this doesn't seem like limiting factor, more of a mindset issue.

Navy Reactors

All this griping about cost overruns and unable to build these things according to a predetermined âoewaterfallâ schedule⦠as griped by a bunch of software project specialists. Why donâ(TM)t you go share your revolutionary new agile methods with those nuclear guys - you know, just make it up as you go along, only work on the most valuable sub-components as determined by worker votes and T-Shirt sizes, have weekly customer meetings to find out which flavor of welding is preferable today, etc.

No worries, they just raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 to keep the workers available. And look how well theyâ(TM)re handling a social meltdown on the streets of a Paris - hardly any casualties at all.

I'm very interested in running Linux on my new M2max Mac in VMware, with good performance and features. Although I don't need "boot from metal", I figure that all this extra support work is great and will help the cause of containerization.

People are ASLEEP half of the day, so why should they get a full time salary?? Immediate pay cuts now, for everyone! Except, of course for investors whose money never stops working. In the name of fairness and common sense, Republican flavored.

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Look in a mirror for BS detection - you have far less credibility than the esteemed NYT. Thereâ(TM)s a slippery slope here in a quickly updating observation-based ecosystem, where âoeisâ and âoeprobablyâ and âoecould beâ keep duking it out to claim the mantle of Truth.

Not really - because that analysis completely disregards the value of all the electricity generated in the meantime - which was substantial.

Maybe this tech is prep for *after* weâ(TM)ve reached net-zero emissions and then need to do something about all that historical backlog of CO2. Quit being so negative, yâ(TM)all.

This theme already appeared in the 1972 movie Fritz The Cat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But wait - What does Greta say about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But risk-assessments and vulnerability mitigations are done in the pre-proof phase - ie, to AVOID trouble, or potential trouble, before it hits you in the face. Eg, how many traffic accidents do YOU need before you're convinced to wear a seat belt?

This whole "slave to human nature" thing never stops hurting us; by this I mean the instinct deficiencies when working intangibles -- especially future probabilities, statistics, risk, etc. And clearly some strategies could be both *-ist and non- *-ist at the same time, but it's not realistic to just harp on one while ignoring the others.

Let's see if this vendor will take the hint and offer evidence or mitigation steps towards these perceived risks, rather than just blabber away with denials and secondary considerations. The market is theirs to lose; how they respond will reveal their inherent position, which might not be under their control... which is the whole point of the America's gripe.