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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: RANT - impossibility of downloading Plan9
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:46:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a.0411221310.5d0cfa93@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pD0nd.6581$3U4.151532@news02.tsnz.net>

> First time I tried with konqueror's http/ftp client, and bell-labs bombed
> out on me.
> 
> Second time I tried using gtm, and I got 39 MB of the file before it bombed
> out.
> 
> What the h*** is wrong with the system?

Why don't you use an HTTP client that restarts lost connections?

> Well, the first thing I can think of, is the stupid license terms, which
> effectively prevent Plan9 from being mirrored anywhere else, eg, which
> prevent Plan9 from making use of the excellent international set of mirrors
> in the Sourceforge system.

There's nothing preventing Plan 9 from being mirrored anywhere else
except that no one has bothered.  Where in the license does it say
that mirrors can't exist?

Russ


       reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <pD0nd.6581$3U4.151532@news02.tsnz.net>
2004-11-23  9:46 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2004-11-23 10:09   ` Vester Thacker

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