[9fans] Re: Plan9 should be free distributable

[Alexander Viro viro@math.psu.edu]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Jim Choate wrote:

> > Personally I am more than happy to pay US$350.00 for a source licence,
> > if that contributes to keeping the very talented people at Lucent
> > able to keep working.
>
> I'm more interested in keeping the OS alive then making sure a bunch of
> engineers at Lucent stay on the payroll.

OK, that's it. May I politely ask you what the greed bloody fsck did you
contribute to either Plan 9 or Linux or _anything_ aside of reposts to
cypherpunks list? Nothing?

> > Lucent is a commercial company, so lets not bash them too much for
> > trying to stay in business. They may not be helping as much as
> > some of us think they could, but at least they are not actually
> > doing great harm like a certain Redmond based company..
>
> Let's bash all commercial companies who keep technology they have no
> interest or intent in developing closed licensed so others can't go
> forward.

	Keyword being "others", indeed... Sorry for rudeness, but I'm sick
and tired of *.advocacy trash like you trying to wank on l-k about your
rights and responsibility of everyone else to do what you want. So you are
doing it here. And pretend to advocate Linux, in bargain. Thank you _so_
much for associating yourself with us. Sheesh...

				Al, _very_ PO'd Linux kernel hacker.