From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E4AE144.7050701@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Some Plan9 questions References: <20030211223619.29018.qmail@scsi1.moonshynecomm.com>, <48effcda.0302121028.32e948f0@posting.google.com> <3E4A94BE.1070305@csh.rit.edu> <3E4A9807.6050009@ameritech.net> <3E4ADB66.3010405@csh.rit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:05:24 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5a1d966e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > What's your distribution philosophy then? Though we are getting way off-topic from plan9, I'll answer this publicly. If anyone has any further questions I can probably sum up the answer by saying "sometime in the near future". Still, I'm happy to answer any questions directed to my email address. Unfortunately, distribution policy is a huge debate. I want to be able to distribute the source of the operating system while being able to maintain a stream of income, since, I am not in the financial position to initiate any research projects solely for research's sake (despite wanting to). This has obviously been a major issue since the dawn of research itself. How can we properly balance a desire to maintain lifestyle while pursuing work that truly fulfills our inherent curiosity and need to be challenged? There must be a sound way to facilitate universal research throughout the community at the same time as we stuff money into mutual funds and (overseas *wink*) bank accounts for our children to maintain a stable, opportunity filled adolescence. I spend most of my free time at the library researching this issue and I truly hope I can find a solution. Honestly, that is all I can say at this point. > (and I'm glad to see you ignored the earlier comments regarding a > distinction of philosophy and code) =) Don