RMS has the power to turn people away from "bad" technology. Remember
that now.
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:46 AM, bblochl wrote:
Pietro Gagliardi schrieb:
People do acknowledge the new free systems. Unfortunately, RMS got
them off it in a microsecond when 3e came out:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html
And I don't believe the Note at the top will change people's minds.
Wikipedia says:
License
The full source code is freely available under Lucent Public License
1.02, and considered to be open source by the OSI and free software
by the FSF (although incompatible with the GNU General Public
License). It passes the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
From another mail: "But the world has pretty much forgotten Plan 9
even exists (and lets not even mention Inferno)."...............
I do think, that its not the license, the main problem of plan 9 is
the lack of a tutorial for beginners and examples for some
applications and at best with some exercises to practice. Well,
there is a bulky manual. The collection of papers "Plan 9 — The
Documents (Volume 2)" is more readable. But learning from manuals
compares to learning a language from a dictionary. There is a need
for some more "readable". For example the role of make as an
equivalent for cc is not self-evident for a traditional normal OS-
user. It is a regret that alef has gone and limbo is not available
under Plan 9. (Or is it?) As there is no simple introduction to Plan
9 new users will just go the easy way and get Windows or Linux.
bblochl
