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Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 professional engineers, tear up your NDAs!
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Why is there no substantial in-depth technical discussion of Plan 9
engineering for distributed systems here?

I finally figured it out - because the people who are working on those
things, the professionals at IBM and wherever else, are forbidden by
contract to talk about the current work, and IBM and others are quite
eager to get as many patents as possible on all the amazing
possibilities of Plan 9/9P for building distributed systems and
supercomputers.

I call on the human beings who are the engineers at IBM and elsewhere
to make the human choice that Plan 9 is important to the world - a lot
more important than the BS of patents and the evils of NDAs which
restrict free flow of ideas and conversation between human beings.

TEAR UP THE NDAS!

BURN THE PATENTS!!

Stop trying to make the evolution of Plan 9 a patent-encrusted,
closed-source, corporate controlled industry.  Give it to the
hobbyists and the hackers and let it become the TRUE SUCCESSOR to unix
that it always should have been.

Non-disclosure agreements are a gross offense at the basic principle
that humans should be able to talk freely about their ideas, and that
all of us benefit from open communication.  I call for the complete
end to the use of NDAs in contracts for technical engineers, so they
can freely share ideas with the community, and freely receive ideas
back.

And stop with the patents, also.

Ben Kidwell "mycroftiv"

Let's have a free and unrestricted discussion of all the amazing
possibilities of Plan 9 and 9P based colony computing, and how
it can help the human race.

Peace and love.