Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

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On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 8:21 AM, Jacob Moody wrote:
> I was making fun of your bragging because you implicated more installs equated to higher quality.
I never said that more installs equate higher quality and I never said that the quality of your code sucks or my code quality is better. 

On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 8:21 AM, Jacob Moody wrote:
> I trust that the licensing in 9front has been handled correctly.
I have to make my decisions cause by distributing my fork I am the one who is liable. On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 

8:22 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> Hope this helps,
Yes it does. As it seems you used code licensed with LPL and made changes while avoiding the use of GPL licensed code which would have caused problems.

On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 8:02 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> One by one we're getting rid of the third-party software -- I
particularly look forward to the day we can finally ditch Ghostscript --
but in the meantime these accusations of license violations are
misinformed and have no basis in reality.

You don't have to ditch Ghostscript. You can provide this as a seperated download. The user of your system is free to download GPL'ed programs or code as he pleases. This won't infect other parts of the system which don't rely on the existence of such programs. 


On Monday, 13 May 2024, at 8:21 AM, Jacob Moody wrote:
> I was trying to communicate that for the purposes of using hardware made this millennia (as any "professional" would do), 9front clearly has better code for doing so.
I trust that the licensing in 9front has been handled correctly.
I don't doubt that your fork runs on more systems out of the box compared to plan9 final edition. But with minor changes in the final edition of plan9 I also don't have problems to make my fork work on hardware made for this millennia. I tried your system on some thin clients and except for a few with bugs in the bios or in uefi and some issues with timer interrupts your system was also running. 

I respect your fork but I won't use it for distributed systems. 

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