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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by 4ad on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @05:31AM (#3537408)
The problem wasn't that the Plan 9 guys opposed commercialization, quite the contrary, the problem was that AT&T never let the system become open source. For some time it wasn't even available outside universities. That killed it.

Yes, acme doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, I use it every day.

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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by hollerith on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @10:04AM (#3538191)
>the problem was that AT&T never let the system become open source.

The whole thing except the fonts was put under a very liberal open-source licence 10 or 12 or so years ago. (By then it was owned by Bellcore or Lucent, not AT&T.) Before then there were severe restrictions; is your opinion that by time the severe restrictions were lifted, it was too late because Linux had already become entrenched?

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Re:Plan 9: The way the future was by 4ad on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @10:13AM (#3538241)
Yes, it was made open source in 2000, 8 years after the first release of 1992, far too late.
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