[9fans] Plan 9 future

[Will Rose cwr@cts.com]

From: Will Rose <cwr@crash.cts.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 future
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In article <200005120356.DAA74223@mail.eot.dbsystems.com> you wrote:
: Again waiting for this thread to idle (and watching with even
: further amusement the discussions of U*NIX's history; brace
: styles, that was good), I would like to continue the discussion
: of commercial use of Plan 9.

: Even though most of us agree with Jim Choate that an Open Source
: model would be the most attractive to everybody except Lucent
: stock holders, the reality is that the most we can hope for is
: reasonable terms to use the ideas and code in Plan 9.

: There are two primary reasons I champion the use of Plan 9:

: - I greatly respect the contributions of Bell Labs researchers
: and if I had to bet on a new successful computing paradigm, it
: would be theirs.

: - The code is written and I believe there are patents.  The
: easiest way to take advantage of them is to purchase them.  Also,
: after looking at way too much *BSD and Linux code (and I use that
: term loosely) it is refreshing to read the mostly clear, precise
: and well designed code that is in Plan 9.  In fact, a very large
: reason for me staying away from every other "free" system out
: there is the awlful spaghetti known as the GNU C compiler.  I have
: looked very hard at Amoeba for that very reason and it is too bad
: that the source to the C compiler is not included in that
: distribution.

If this is the ACK (Amsterdam Compiler Kit) compiler, the source
may be released within the next few months.  comp.os.minix (which
uses ACK) has been discussing this recently.


Will
cwr@cts.com