Just don't try to use it in a commercial product unless you have a
commercial license or a small army of laywers to help you through the
license morass.
Compare the Plan9 license[1] with the OpenBSD license policy[2] and
recommended license[3] sometime.
-d
[1]
don't worry, we're working on it
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
Theo occasionally pops by to comp.os.plan9 (last time to discuss licences)
(he coverts the plan9 compilers)
plan9 is an OS research platform
some of it's tools have been kind of back-ported to the unix likes
(wily, 9wm)
I
I think some individuals lose site of the reality of computing. There
will never be one operating system that everyone uses. People demand
choice. Isn't that what the gnu preaches?
If you want a media appliance pc, buy a Mac or Windows box. If you
want a fast, command based os choose one
Matt Heath wrote:
don't worry, we're working on it
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/
Theo occasionally pops by to comp.os.plan9 (last time to discuss licences)
(he coverts the plan9 compilers)
plan9 is an OS research platform
some of it's tools have been kind of back-ported to
I think some individuals lose site of the reality of computing. There
will never be one operating system that everyone uses. People demand
choice. Isn't that what the gnu preaches?
Some do, some just adopt whatever the media message tells them they should.
Some people put a lot of
A few years ago, this email would have been worth at least 20 mil in
VC money.
Right now, however, it appears that a marketing executive and a troll
got stuck in one of those machines from The Fly.
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:47:55 -0700 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guys (and gals)
As
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
Wonderful thought, but the thing that made Gates big was clout in
the marketplace that was given to him by sleeping with Big Blue (IBM)
who, at the time was the undisputed 10 ton gorilla in the computer
market. Remember there were no
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:18:39AM -0400, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
Matt Heath wrote in response to Chris's outside-the-box challenge:
I use plan9 as my development platform as it is a delight to use.
Don't expect eye candy, it is an OS to get work done.
If the subject is competing in the
Guys (and gals)
As great as the *BSD's are - why are we not thinking ahead of the curve?
Outside of the box? What do I mean? Well - why not develope our OS's to run
on an arch. that isn't out yet - MAKE that new arch. just like Gates did so
many years ago. He defined the x86
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Think outside of the box (Gawd, I hate that term)
Guys (and gals)
As great as the *BSD's are - why are we not thinking ahead of the
curve?
Outside of the box? What do I mean? Well - why not develope our OS's
to run
on an arch. that isn't out yet - MAKE that new arch
Guys (and gals)
As great as the *BSD's are - why are we not thinking ahead of the curve?
Outside of the box? What do I mean? Well - why not develope our OS's to run
on an arch. that isn't out yet - MAKE that new arch. just like Gates did so
many years ago. He defined the x86 market -
Borrowing ideas is essential to progress in the computer industry.
Technically; you measure progress not by market results, but by the
spread of ideas. The value of ideas lies not in how much money the one
company that owns those ideas makes, but by how readily those ideas are
given away and used
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