[TUHS] Clem's Law.

josh joshnatis0 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 14:37:33 AEST 2022


> Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> My own take on this is what I call "Cole's Law" Simple economics
> always beats sophisticated architecture.

Cole's Law is a bit of a better name than Clem's Law :P. Clem has
invoked his law on this mailing list in various contexts, check out
the archives.

Josh

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 11:58 PM steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>
wrote:

> I thought this comment was very good.
>
> I went looking for “Clem’s Law” (presume Clem Cole) and struck out.
>
> Any hints anyone can suggest or history on the comment?
>
> steve j
>
> ==========
>
> Larry McVoy wrote Fri Sep 17 10:44:25 AEST 2021
> <https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-September/024424.html>
>
>         Plan 9 is very cool but I am channeling my inner Clem,
>         Plan 9 didn't meet Clem's law.
>         It was never compelling enough to make the masses love it.
>         Linux was good enough.
>
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