* [9fans] Re: RANT - impossibility of downloading Plan9
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@ 2004-11-23 9:46 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-23 10:09 ` Vester Thacker
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From: Russ Cox @ 2004-11-23 9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> 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
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