From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:35:36 +0200
From: Elliott Hughes Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: [9fans] Re:
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> 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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