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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:53:24 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
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On Fri Jan 20 12:42:42 EST 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> 
> recompilation is not a common option on linux, which has tons of 
> something we don't see much on plan 9: third party software.
> 
> ron

That sounds a lot like Windows - "I got this code from somewhere else
and it's too difficult/awkward or impossible to move it to my new system
so I will carry the baggage around forever".

So there's no free freedom after all?

--jim