From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:45:23 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20091028094522.GA1167@polynum.com> References: <20091027175656.GA1021@polynum.com> <17568.1256689390@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17568.1256689390@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] Two suggestions for ape (was: egrep for Plan9) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 92bd6ecc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:23:10PM -0400, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > > University of Utah, "Flux OSkit". > > Old OSkit is mostly BSD licensed (if you count the CMU Mach license > as a BSD license), but at some point somebody sprayed the GPL over > everything (somewhat reducing the utility of some CMU-derived code > for a project here at CMU, but I digress). > > If you are looking for an approximation of the last non-GPL'd OSkit, > I think this is probably it: > > http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/download/fiasco-1.1-oskit.tar.bz2 Thanks to everyone for the pointers and the complementary informations about the status. The idea seems logical at first and even rewarding for hardware manufacturers (you can easily copy soft; cloning a device is more difficult at home and certainly not cheaper...), since the more OSes have drivers, the more customers can buy the devices. But since there is a kind of OS dominating, there is a bias. And since, more and more, even in "open" OSes, there are BLOBs... -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C