Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Box Set from Vita Nuova

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:22:24PM +0000, Michael Jeffrey. wrote:
> 
> For the moment we have no plans to provide a subscription
> option for Plan 9 though this will be reviewed. Subscriptions
> for Inferno were appropriate since we have the exclusive
> rights to develop and distribute outside of Lucent and can
> control the frequency of updates.  For Plan 9 the update frequency
> will be outside of our control and hence the costs as well.
> 
Different idea, though.  Walnut Creek had the approach that releases
were ad hoc, and you got posted a fresh CD, duly debited to your
credit card account, whenever appropriate.  As far as I know they
still do so, although the recent *BSD merger may have affected the
arrangement.

> The cost of the next release of Plan 9, whenever that is, will
> largely be determined by whether the manuals need to be
> reprinted or whether supplmentary documentation will suffice.

I don't think that invalidates the model :-)

++L