The Plan 9 crew had another run-in with Stallman later on, and much to our (the Plan9 users and devs) this one worked out in the favour of FOSS http://www.gnu.

The Plan 9 crew had another run-in with Stallman later on, and much to our (the Plan9 users and devs) this one worked out in the favour of FOSS http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html The wave of FOSS came at just the wrong time for Plan 9. Lucent had bought the Labs and were losing money hand over fist in the tech crunch, they were taking out alternate light bulbs in the Labs building to save money! Lucent's lawyers were unhappy about removing the restrictions (you could modify the kernel source for your project but had to submit your changes upstream to Lucent - crazy clause!). The corp name over the door changed to Alcatel / Lucent. The team was let go - mostly to Google (where Pike is now). http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/curse_of_glenda.html http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/curse_of_glenda.html Still, Plan 9 From Bell Labs lives on, even with its patents copied into Linux (private namespaces). We'll wait for Oracle to use them for MySQL and raise the submarine!!