Why Plan-9?
Meyer Wolfsheim
wolf at priori.net
Tue Oct 23 16:56:35 PDT 2001
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Summer, June/July, IIRC. I've done a couple of look-ups since. There's
> been little additional news or information (I'm not saying none, I'm
> saying little). OpenBSD, a relatively little-known free 'nix, gets
> rather more press and community coverage.
Little-known? That's unfair. OpenBSD is a fairly well known operating
system, among the members of its target audience.
> Poor licensing choices are one of several key modes of failure for free
> software projects. If Plan 9 procedes forward, I expect to see another
> two or three significant licensing revisions.
Explain the popularity of Unix, then.
-MW-
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