Pietro Gagliardi schrieb:
People do acknowledge the new free systems. Unfortunately, RMS got
them off it in a microsecond when 3e came out:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html
And I don't believe the Note at the top will change people's minds.
Wikipedia says:
License
The full source code is freely available under Lucent Public License
1.02, and considered to be open source by the OSI and free software by
the FSF (although incompatible with the GNU General Public License). It
passes the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
From another mail: "But the world has pretty much forgotten Plan 9 even
exists (and lets not even mention Inferno)."...............
I do think, that its not the license, the main problem of plan 9 is the
lack of a tutorial for beginners and examples for some applications and
at best with some exercises to practice. Well, there is a bulky manual.
The collection of papers "Plan 9 — The Documents (Volume 2)" is more
readable. But learning from manuals compares to learning a language from
a dictionary. There is a need for some more "readable". For example the
role of make as an equivalent for cc is not self-evident for a
traditional normal OS-user. It is a regret that alef has gone and limbo
is not available under Plan 9. (Or is it?) As there is no simple
introduction to Plan 9 new users will just go the easy way and get
Windows or Linux.
bblochl
