From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:41:59 -0700 From: Eric Dorman eld@jewel.ucsd.edu Subject: [9fans] Plan9 commercial licenses Topicbox-Message-UUID: 672e0b84-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970930164159.znKYeKbpywD7L6Ntk_gT1U0REkPoaxkt5mjHZEqvu5Q@z> > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:14:58 -0500 > From: "G. David Butler" > To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu > > I have found out that Lucent will not license Plan9 for > distribution any longer (Inferno is king). That is sad. Would've been nice to see Plan9 exploited in a field app. I wish I had money to throw at it but my bosses are pretty much hung up on junk you can buy off-the-shelf and satisfies the 80/20 solution (eech). > As far as commercial > use goes, they are thinking of either a subscription charge or the > same terms as before (25,000 +100 per server) without distribution > rights. What exactly is a 'subscription charge'? I've not heard that sort of arrangement before. > With that kind of pricing, I'm going to something else. Any ideas? > VsTA? FreeBSD? RTEMS? QNX? vsta is very raw, and graphics are nothing compared to anything 'modern' I think my problem with the *BSDs is they're still reinventing the wheel. Again. I'll probably end up using FreeBSD somewhere in my work (sort-of like ATM machines for healthcare information and imagery), mostly 'cuz it's what my boss knows, but also as Plan9 lacks 16b/32b color. Actually I have some of the 16b/32b color fixed: a compiling blit that works for 16b/32b, hooks in devvga, etc. Have to examine the other parts of libgnot, cope with the colormap stuff, and steal my Matrox MGA back :) .. probably integrate the softscreen and hardscreen somehow.. > Thanks > David Butler > gdb@dbSystems.com Regards, Eric Dorman University of California at San Diego School of Medicine edorman@ucsd.edu