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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:32:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ksztsxr.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011109092126.577D7199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu>

nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es (Fco.J.Ballesteros) writes:

> 1. Plan 9 is free software, you may like it or not, but it's free
> software. The fact that It's not [L]GPL is not an issue.

There is lots of free software that isn't GPL'd.  The problem is that
Plan 9's license does contain important liberty restrictions, and
those restrictions are, in fact, important to the very large free
software development community.

Plan 9 is available at low cost, but that's a separate issue from
whether it is free software in the libre sense, which is the sense
that matters to all those developers.

> 4. Regarding your suggestions for improvements, I'm still waiting
> for you to write something like:
>
> 	"Here is this piece of code of a plan 9 application;
> 	now, by changing plan 9 in this way, this application
> 	could be now as I show below (i.e. more simple,
> 	or more whatever)..."

I don't think I've made any suggestions for improvements.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-12 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-09  9:21 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 11:23 ` pac
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-11-12 10:45 ` David Rubin
2001-11-12 15:34   ` Ronald G Minnich
     [not found] <20011112170104.719C619ABA@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2001-12-29  4:03 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-13 11:13   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-13 15:53     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-11-13 17:21     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-14 18:02 forsyth
2001-11-14 16:08 anothy
2001-11-14 14:43 presotto
2001-11-14 14:29 rob pike
2001-11-15 10:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-14  9:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-14  8:29 okamoto
2001-11-14  5:24 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-14  4:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-14  5:12 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 23:46 forsyth
2001-11-13 22:18 forsyth
2001-11-13 23:27 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2001-11-14  4:38   ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-13 21:50 presotto
2001-11-14  0:40 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 21:46 Russ Cox
2001-11-13 21:46 Sape Mullender
2001-11-13 21:44 presotto
2001-11-13 21:47 ` andrey
2001-11-13 20:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 20:17 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 22:38 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 19:58 presotto
2001-11-13 20:14 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 21:39 ` Mike Haertel
2001-11-13 22:54 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-14  0:19   ` William Josephson
2001-11-12 19:24 anothy
2001-11-14  9:52 ` Eyal Lotem
2001-11-12 19:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13  0:19 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13  2:02   ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13  2:16     ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13  2:27       ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 10:34     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 19:15 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-12 17:06 anothy
2001-11-12 15:10 presotto
2001-11-12 13:14 nigel
2001-11-13  0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 18:04   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-14  9:52     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 12:17 geoff
2001-11-13 10:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-12 13:48 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13 16:21   ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-09  9:38 okamoto
2001-11-09  7:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 14:55 presotto
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 10:17 ` John S. Dyson
2001-11-08 13:46 forsyth
2001-11-09  0:51 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08 10:40 Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 12:55 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-09 10:17   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 14:34     ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-10  2:00       ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:29           ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-13 10:27             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:42         ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-12 20:24           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-13  0:03             ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG

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