From: Elliott Hughes Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: [9fans] Re:
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:35:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980922123536.AyvXmdTUzEwzKMnwyN8Pz48gcB1n3Ieziy_aGzOpWnM@z> (raw)
> Hmm. kernel hacks, maybe, but surely there wasn't any restriction on
> distributing brand new applications, or those ported to Plan 9?
no, of course not, but who's going to choose to write for Plan 9 rather
than Linux? my lwm window manager for X, for example, was originally my
modified version of 8.5 while i was at York. it didn't seem worth making
diffs for that, because no-one would have used it. people i knew would
run it from my bin, but that was it. when i wrote lwm, those same people
would ask if they could have the source so they could use it at home.
my point was about "the enticement of having users". it's a lot nicer to
know that someone other than just you is using your programs. [unless
it's paid programming, in which case users are a pain in the bum ;-)]
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1998-09-22 12:35 Elliott [this message]
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2004-09-27 23:52 ` Vester Thacker
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2004-07-21 18:40 Paul.clark
2004-07-20 12:07 Presotto
2004-07-19 21:38 Owner-
2004-07-19 21:35 Kma
2000-07-25 9:07 arisawa
2000-07-26 2:03 ` [9fans] Eric Dorman
2000-06-11 20:24 presotto
2000-06-11 20:00 presotto
2000-06-11 20:02 ` [9fans] Andrey Mirtchovski
1998-09-22 11:31 steve_kilbane
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