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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:32:36 +0000
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geoff@collyer.net writes:

> And could we create a new mailing list or comp.religion.gpl newsgroup
> for the licence discussions?  Plan 9 is free enough for those who are
> more interested in technology than the religion and politics of
> licensing and copyright.  Sadly, many Free Software advocates are
> more interested in licensing and copyright than in getting actual work
> done.

I wasn't saying anything about Plan 9 being evil or a waste of time,
just explaining why a particular large developer base is not spending
effort on it.  Other people were musing about why this might be, and I
added one very important reason.