From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7dfabffda8300d92cc3bf30c857ba7ce@coraid.com> From: bwc@coraid.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: The new ridiculous license In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:42:45 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d516beea-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I want to also thank the Plan 9 team for the obviously hard work to get Plan 9 released. Thirteen years ago it was impossible to get anything of substance out of the Labs. It seemed to me that any work I would do there wouldn't be useful to anyone on the outside. The Plan 9 work represents 16 or 17 years of hard innovation and work by a lot of people and represents a larger body of advancements possibly than the original Unix work. Its usefulness and impact has already been felt in the Unix world with some of its innovations finding their way into lots of kernels. I don't want amature lawyers and members of a license based religious sect making the hard efforts of the Plan 9 crew to get the work of a significant part of their life out into the world in a form that can be directly used for the betterment of mankind. They have been successful in getting use a license that allows their work to be used directly in new products. I, and others, are deeply greatful. Brantley Coile