From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:46:18 +0000 From: Russ Cox Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: Subject: [9fans] Re: RANT - impossibility of downloading Plan9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a2a13fa-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > First time I tried with konqueror's http/ftp client, and bell-labs bomb= ed > out on me. >=20 > Second time I tried using gtm, and I got 39 MB of the file before it bo= mbed > out. >=20 > 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, whic= h > effectively prevent Plan9 from being mirrored anywhere else, eg, which > prevent Plan9 from making use of the excellent international set of mir= rors > 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