From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:55:19 +0000
From: Anthony C. Zboralski Gaius acz@hert.org
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 should be free distributable
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I have been interested in plan9 for a long time. Maybe if the plan9 iso had been released illegally
by the software piracy community, it might have gained a bigger userbase. I have been asking
everyone for a copy because I couldn't afford one at the time and noone complied to my request.
I remember trying to social engineer people at bell-labs to let me download a copy. Well all that
failed...

Plan9 is too expensive and hard to get... It is really funny because it is easier to get an illegal copy of
solaris, irix, aix or ios source trees nowadays, no joke...

There are some commercial products that cost a lot more like 3dsmax, maya, autocad 2000 ... but you
can ask anyone and he will be pleased to make you an illegal copy; it is a fact that 95% of students
don't buy software they can't afford. Personally I believe that a software worth using is worth
buying and I  paid my expensive copy of IDA (the best disassembler out there) .

The plan9 technology is amazing and if it doesn't become freely available it will be cloned and we will
start an open plan9 distribution, there might be patent issues but only in the USA... Software patents
are not enforced everywhere, they are abusive and void.

Also what's up with inferno? When are the vitanuova going to add contents to their site? Inferno
has never been so opaque.

Hoping I didn't offend you,

Truly,

Anthony