From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200302121146.LAA11215@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9 In-Reply-To: <003301c2d282$5b5e8de0$6501a8c0@kike> from matt at "Feb 12, 2003 10:34:43 am" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Digby Tarvin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:46:14 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 58f8ea40-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 A saying involving mouths of gift horses springs to mind about now... If only Bell Labs would only let us pay for Plan9 (and I for one paid for my first copy, and was happy to do so), maybe they would have an incentive to worry about its commercial use... I like Plan9 (and Unix) because of good design and source availability, not because I can get them free. I avoid Windows, not because it is commercial, but because there is no source and it is rubbish. Not that I am complaining about being forced to keep my money.. But as long as Plan9 makes no money for the labs, they really have no business wasting shareholders money promoting it or worrying about commercial acceptance (potentially by competitors)... For now, I don't think anyone would complain if this discussion went off line... Regards, DigbyT matt: > > > We have gone through this before. > > And we ain't done yet, by a long shot. > > how tiresome -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk