From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:06:28 -0500
From: Jim Choate ravage@ssz.com
Subject: [9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future
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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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