rumours of plan 9 going commercial

[Vijay Gill vijay@gl.umbc.edu]

> However, I think Rob Pike has said that they are trying
> to get Plan 9 publicly released.  I assume he means as
> free software along the lines of awk or sam.  I believe
> this is the only way Plan 9 will ever have a chance to see
> the widespread use it deserves, and so I hope very much
> that this happens.

Oh god, I think the earth moved for me.
I am drumming up support for plan 9 here, but when I say it
doesn't run emacs, people lose all interest and the weird thing
is that after about 2 weeks of running sam, I would hate to go
back to emacs, and I am a die hard emacs/vi fan.  But most people
don't seem to be willing to take the time to learn sam properly.
People I showed sam to... oh whats the point.

The compatibility list seems to be working, I got some mail about
it, so people, if you have PC's running plan 9, mail me your
configuration/hardware specs and get them incorporated into the
list.

vijay