From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:41:59 +0000
From: Douglas A. Gwyn DAGwyn@null.net
Subject: [9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future
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Jim Choate wrote:
> My view is that Lucent/Bell Labs has no intention of any sort of
> long term or serious support for Plan 9. ...

They seem to have been willing to fund its development over many
years now, with a lot of staff time redirected for a while toward
the Inferno product development.

> So long as Plan 9 is released under a commercial license and the
> primary goal is to make money off the OS, ... it will fail.

Plan 9 is a *research* platform, not a commercial product!
I was happy to pay my $350 for the previous snapshot of Plan 9,
including nice printed manuals, in order to do the "hobby" things
you claimed it was too pricy for.

> ... As users and supporters of Plan 9 our PRIMARY goal should be
> to increase the user community of Plan 9.

I disagree.  What we want is quality, not quantity.