[9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future

[Richard Uhtenwoldt ru@ohio.river.org]

Will Rose writes:

>I _don't_ think it should be Open Source.  I
>value it because it contains a lot of interesting ideas from experienced
>system designers (and it's also fun to play with).  I don't want it given
>over to a larger, less-skilled, group.

If it was Open-Source licensed, then many of the Bell Labs researchers
would continue to work on it.  otherwise, why would Rob Pike be trying
to convince Lucent management to Open Source it?

so, you could insist on using only the releases made or 'blessed' by
Bell Labs researchers.  If you trust those researchers to produce good
code, then surely you can trust them to refrain from putting bad code
written by less-skilled random hackers into their releases.