From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri,  9 May 1997 10:50:44 +0200
From: Jan Hubicka hubicka@horac.ta.jcu.cz
Subject: future of plan9...
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Lucio de Re wrote:

> > 
> > BTW: THIS is the future of Plan9.  What ever we make of it.
> > 
> > David Butler
> > gdb@dbSystems.com
> 
> Very well formulated.  The license restrictions remain a stumbling block but it would be nice to ask Lucent to change them, if we could decide what it is that we all want :-)
> 
> My two cents' worth is that I'd like to use Plan 9 commercially, although in a very restricted environment: I operate as a low key ISP, and I'd like all my computers to be served from a Plan 9 core network - one or two clients would similarly benefit from running Plan 9 instead of Windows NT as a core server.
cool..
I asked my university (Matfyz) to buy plan9 CD, because I think it is so
nice OS full of original ideas that it should be interesting to everyone 
studying operating systems at my university. So I installed one plan9 
from 4 disc set and made smal show of it. They enjoyed it but because 
they think that plan9 is os w/o any future, CD is relativly expensive (at 
least for czech student) and there is no other students working on this 
OS they refused to buy it untill I will find some project that requires 
plan9.. Do you have any ideas?

And small question to bell labs: whats about making free/very cheap 
distribution for univerzities. This should make plan9 much more popular 
since everyone who seen plan9 at my computer tryed to install it. (some 
of them failed because of relativly stupid restrictions for partitions 
and problem with more partitions on disc)

Honza

> 
> Then again, I may not be representative, although it would be nice to think that there are affinities with others on this list.
> -- 
> Lucio de Re (lucio@proxima.alt.za)
> Disclaimer: I'm working at getting my opinions to agree with me.
> 
> 

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