Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

[vic.thacker@fastmail.fm]

On Mon, May 13, 2024, at 18:22, ibrahim wrote:
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> plan9 is simply the final release made by bell labs and now owned by 
> p9f. Thats not my interpretation this is a fact. Everything beyond that 
> point is a fork based on plan9. 
>
> Everyone is allowed to derive his/her work from this provided version of plan9.
>
> 9front is a fork, 9legacy is a fork and there were other forks. I have 
> my own fork. If tomorrow another one decides to fork plan9 than thats 
> okay. 

I think that is a constructive way to view it. 

...
> The only thing we can agree on as fork developers is what is officially 
> called plan9 as a basement for exchange of code ideas aso. Code that 
> can be compiled and executed on the official release is one that can be 
> exchanged. 

That is a good point.  However, the question becomes how can we 
contribute to the original source repository?  It would be nice to have the
baseline updated so that more forks can be created with fewer updates
needed to be relevant.

Vic

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