Faculty/license the only way to get plan 9?

Faculty/license the only way to get plan 9?

[Steve]

Andrew Cowell <cowell@cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> if we have to wait for all the licensing to go through our legal department,
> it will probably be over a year

You must have quite a legal department. I only had to wait about 2 weeks.

> I seem to remember someone from the summer Usenix BOF throwing out a figure
> of $50.00.  Is that related to the licensing, or can we just buy it?

I held the BOF at Usenix, and posted a summary, but it didn't mention $50.

Here's part of the summary I posted:

: A new Plan 9 distribution will be worked on this summer, but it is unclear
: if it will be distributed. Please don't deluge the developers for more
: information regarding the licencing and release details.
: 
: It will have acme and a fax service, and updated versions of alef, acid &
: authenticaion services.  The PC kernel now supports sound boards.
: The default porting base will be for PC's instead of Sparcs and Magnums.
: If legal details can be worked out, the Plan 9 developers hope that this
: CD will also be released publicly, so that anyone can buy it
: (again, this is what they HOPE ... no promises).

The new release is still being worked on, but we haven't heard if it will
be a 'public' release, or just for current licencees.

Faculty/license the only way to get plan 9?

[Andrew]

Is this the only way to get plan 9?  I've gotten a lot of people here all
hot and bothered about plan 9, but if we have to wait for all the licensing
to go through our legal department, it will probably be over a year
(based on previous experiences) before we ever see plan 9, IF we ever see
plan 9.

I seem to remember someone from the summer Usenix BOF throwing out a figure
of $50.00.  Is that related to the licensing, or can we just buy it?