Why Plan-9?

[Meyer Wolfsheim]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> Summer, June/July, IIRC.  I've done a couple of look-ups since.  There's
> been little additional news or information (I'm not saying none, I'm
> saying little).  OpenBSD, a relatively little-known free 'nix, gets
> rather more press and community coverage.

Little-known? That's unfair. OpenBSD is a fairly well known operating
system, among the members of its target audience.

> Poor licensing choices are one of several key modes of failure for free
> software projects.  If Plan 9 procedes forward, I expect to see another
> two or three significant licensing revisions.

Explain the popularity of Unix, then.


-MW-