

An Intro to the Plan 9 OS [video and slides] - jff
http://sse.se.rit.edu/programs/tech-talks/plan-9

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jacquesm
Every now and then a _really_ new thing comes along, and Plan 9 is one of
those things. It's been quietly waiting in the wings for its moment to shine.
There are days I wished that Plan 9 had been released as GNU licensed open
source back in the days when Linux first got going, or something more along
the lines of QnX, lots of things are unnecessarily hard the way they are now.

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jff
We (the Plan 9 community) figure that not initially releasing it as open
source cost us Linux's current place. As it stands, we didn't open source
until 2000.

But we wouldn't have put it under the GNU license in any circumstances, we
have grievances against GNU :)

