From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:49:30 +0000
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> Odd that NetBSD uses GCC, isn't it?  No, it's no great wonder why more
> people use GCC than 8c.  There are two reasons:
> 
> GCC generates better code
> GCC has a more liberal license than 8c.

I really don't believe that *you* actually believe that these are anything
like the reasons

You're just being stupid and childishly antagonistic  
(like some other ppl round here!).

I can almost absolutely guarantee that the popularity of plan9 or 8c has
*nothing* to do with the license.

Would you seriously have me believe that if plan9 went public domain
tomorrow then by the end of March it would have 100 more users, 10
even! I doubt even Thomas G Bushnell would be using it!

Can we take it as a given that the people on this list who have any
influence on the people that decide the license actually want it changing
and have tried, without success, to make the change and that going to the
legal department every day and saying "can we make it GPL please? can we?
can we? please? pretty please? pretty please with sugar on" would actually
be counter productive.

And given that, then repeatedly mentioning it is tiresome and has a
negative impact on the morale and development of the plan9 community.

It's getting as bad as all the "don't send html email to this list"
arguments I see every day.

Matt