And the Plan9 compilers, the OpenSD team wanted to lose GCC and were considering the plan9 toolchain. Turning Plan 9 from open source into Free had plenty of t

And the Plan9 compilers, the OpenSD team wanted to lose GCC and were considering the plan9 toolchain. Turning Plan 9 from open source into Free had plenty of teething troubles, getting the lawyers from Bell-Labs then Lucent then Lucent-Alcatel into the idea took years. Originally Plan 9 was paid for software with full source included. Then from v.3 it was a free download but with its own license which included a "if you make modifications you must send your changes back to Lucent". Then it was lobbied for change and to comply with US munitions law Lucent included the export restrictions proviso OpenBSD's Theo so eloquently argues against : http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/d23e576bf06efdfb/84670c239a7f3684 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/t... Ironically the compiler suite became available under GPL / MIT via Vita-Nuova who bought the rights to Inferno. Licensing helped keep Plan9 away from developers at exactly the same time GNU/Linux and OSS exploded on to the scene in much the same way early adopters got interested in GNU/Linux it during the BSD / AT&T lawsuit. How our computing landscape would be different if we all valued freedom.