From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43D144B7.4000208@lanl.gov> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:14:47 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ... References: <267a407e99c7837fa502a7a478d69a65@plan9.bell-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <267a407e99c7837fa502a7a478d69a65@plan9.bell-labs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e1c5561a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > 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? yep. By 3rd party software I mean stuff like compilers, libraries, CAD tools, and so on. It's going to be a while before it's all 64-bit for linux, I would guess. And, seeing the stuff that they do in gnu* nowadays, that's hardly surprising. I mean, ld scripts where a .so should be? holy mackeral. ron