From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:15 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] nsf funding research into better (operating) systems In-Reply-To: <778eba05ec7f17ba8e7e08e883dde348@collyer.net> Message-ID: References: <778eba05ec7f17ba8e7e08e883dde348@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed49f840-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 FYI, I think I can say this, DOE is now supporting Plan 9 research here at LANL and at another place which we'll announce when the money ticks in. So at least the US Gummint is beginning to take notice. Note that this support was not at all possible until Plan 9 got it's spiffy new open source license in June '03. ron