From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:14:41 +0100
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] names
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>>Presumably the name change was a marketing decision, given that
>>the system was going commercial, the cost of source was being
>>increased by no small amount, and 'Plan 9' doesn't sound like
>>a marketable name.

i'd be quite surprised if the name `brazil' had been chosen by marketing.

if people can sell systems called `vrtx' or `VxWorks', or `Jini', i'm sure
the name `Plan 9' is the least of the marketing problems.