From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:20:46 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Box Set from Vita Nuova Message-ID: <20000816162045.I408@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <966414090.29521.2.nnrp-09.d4f0e302@news.demon.co.uk>, <20000816143059.G408@cackle.proxima.alt.za> <966431749.393.0.nnrp-03.d4f0e302@news.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <966431749.393.0.nnrp-03.d4f0e302@news.demon.co.uk>; from Michael Jeffrey. on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:22:24PM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb9266e4-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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