From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10604021316l31fd4ea4k38df941ff7094e6f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:16:22 -0400 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <516979e67230f3c2010d04d316c89bba@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_117_4440782.1144008982442" References: <516979e67230f3c2010d04d316c89bba@9netics.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2c3b7224-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_117_4440782.1144008982442 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from BSD. On 4/2/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > > > As for 386-hardware, I already mentioned that Bruce Evans had a > > legitimate minix-386 going, whether virtual memory was involved or > > not, I have no recollection. The licencing, I recall, was that you > > had to have paid for the source distribution and you were then > > entitled to all subsequent upgrades and so on. I did not get the > > impression that it was a show stopper at the time, I paid considerably > > more for Plan 9 with a much more restrictive licence. > > I seem to recall that 386BSD was available at about the same time. i > don't know why it didn't catch on the way linux did. > > -- Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there i= s nothing final about it. Thus God is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the traditional forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency which would debase the entire value of being born." -- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_117_4440782.1144008982442 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from B= SD.

On 4/2/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut= @9netics.com > wrote:
> As for 386-hardware, I already mentioned that Bruce Evans had a > legitimate minix-386 going, whether virtual memory was involved or
= > not, I have no recollection.  The licencing, I recall, was t= hat you
> had to have paid for the source distribution and you were t= hen
> entitled to all subsequent upgrades and so on.  I did not ge= t the
> impression that it was a show stopper at the time, I paid con= siderably
> more for Plan 9 with a much more restrictive licence.
=
I seem to recall that 386BSD was available at about the same time. = ; i
don't know why it didn't catch on the way linux did.




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Nietzsche's first step is to accep= t what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructi= ve and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke = a kind of crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The = world continues on its course at random and there is nothing final about it= . Thus God=20
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted somethin= g -- and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of= evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pai= n and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert = Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_117_4440782.1144008982442--