From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: bs Message-ID: <3EF36AEC.3030602@nospam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <11085765386d7572968a06a2ee05f689@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: The new ridiculous license Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:02:33 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d6de0b66-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 David Presotto wrote: >>What we see from Lucent is typical corporate psychology. They're afraid to >>let one iota more go than necessary to make a profit. It's hard to take >>any argument or claim based on 'justify a trust' when the only issue at >>hand is profit. > > > We apologize for letting the code out with a license that obligates > the receiver in any way. I promise that with comments like this its > not likely ever to happen again. One can only satisfy some people all the time, all the people some time... I for one am happy with this license. It also proves that there is nothing really free. I am looking forward to a similar license for Inferno. Optimistically, with these two, a computing revolution might begin (again).