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It was a research OS. That by itself renders the entire article moot. It's akin to someone writing an article about how Minix "lost" vs. Linux- it's apples and
by mwfunk 10y ago
It was a research OS. That by itself renders the entire article moot. It's akin to someone writing an article about how Minix "lost" vs. Linux- it's apples and oranges. You can't call something a failure if it was never intended to be the thing you claim it failed at being.
- hollerith 10y agoSome of the people behind Plan 9 lobbied AT&T's management very hard for years to get permission to open-source it, which they obtained in 2002. (Lucent Public License 1.02 satifies the Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.) Some of the people posting to the Plan 9 mailing list at that time from plan9.bell-labs.com addresses certainly hoped that Plan 9 would catch on.
- hollerith 10y agoSome of the people behind Plan 9 lobbied AT&T's management very hard for years to get permission to open-source it, which they obtained in 2002. (Lucent Public License 1.02 satifies the Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.) Some of the people posting to the Plan 9 mailing list at that time from plan9.bell-labs.com addresses certainly hoped that Plan 9 would catch on. In the 1990s Rob Pike tried to persuade one of the major browser vendors to support Plan 9.