From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:58:23 +0000
From: b s balaji@platinum.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 should be free distributable
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"Anthony C. Zboralski Gaius" <acz@hert.org> writes:

%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.
%
I fear the same thing. Unkind acts of hacking some other open source with
Plan 9 features implemented half-assed'y and that gaining more momentum than
the real one... (sometimes even that thought does not seem so bad)