From: Jim Choate ravage@ssz.com
Subject: [9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:06:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000514060628.VGqBqzKE84gZ6nZdQeNzVsxGT6sOt9zCDXQamAOK3bc@z> (raw)
On Sat, 13 May 2000 /usr/rsc/lib/from.eecs@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> You are railing against a license that was written
> in 1995.
And could have been changed during any year since.
> The Internet hadn't taken off,
You must have been living in a different city than I was.
> Eric Raymond hadn't even started to think about writing
> fetchmail, Linux was not much more than a toy,
I've used Linux since 1992 (0.42). In 1995 I'd already been using Linux
for business apps for over a year. Linux was far more than a toy in 1995.
> and companies giving large pieces of software away
> for free was not as socially blest as it is today.
Tell that to FSF and the host of GNU tools that were available.
> In 1995, AT&T was simply not ready or willing to give
> things away for free.
That was then, this is now.
[Remaining rant deleted]
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