future of plan9

[Jan Hubicka hubicka@horac.ta.jcu.cz]

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Lucio de Re wrote:
I sent this message once but because of full disc it probably did not
leaved my computer so again :(
> > 
> > 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 to buy plan9 CD because I think it is so nice OS 
full of original ideas that everyone who study operating systems must see it.
I installed one plan9 to make small show. They quite enhoyed it but they 
refused to buy it, because they think that it is OS w/o future and there 
is no other students interested in working on it. We already have installed
spring at suns but no one uses it (except me and one my friend). So I 
have to make some project that depends on plan9. Do you have any ideas?
They also think that it is not normal to love so ugly looking OS because 
everyone love nice windowed enviroments :(((...I will try to show them 
Inferno..

and small question to bell labs: Whats about making cheaper/free 
distribution of plan9 for univiersities... I think this should make plan9 
more popular since everyone who saw plan9 at my computer already tryed to 
install it (some of them failed because of relativly stupid restrictions 
to partitions) 

I want to see plan9 in large installation because one computer 
installation at my computer is bit ugly..but it is still very cool.. I 
already installed willy to my linux. Usually I use vi but sometimes when 
I want to have some fun I use willy for editing. It is one of most 
powerfull tools for UNIX.. :) 

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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