From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: The new ridiculous license From: "Skip Tavakkolian" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:01:21 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d533f050-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> What we see from Lucent is typical corporate psychology. They're afraid to >> let one iota more go than necessary to make a profit. It's hard to take >> any argument or claim based on 'justify a trust' when the only issue at >> hand is profit. > > We apologize for letting the code out with a license that obligates > the receiver in any way. I promise that with comments like this its > not likely ever to happen again. David, I think you should consider the source. I, like most here, am grateful. It seems to me counterproductive to keep looking for flaws in the license when the intent has been clearly stated over and over again that Lucent/Bell Labs wants Plan9 to be opensource. It is always about the intent.