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From: Borja Marcos borjam@we....
Subject: The future of Plan9?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:38:09 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> 
> <just pretend I quoted the whole thing>
> 
> I can only imagine what it would feel like to bind namespaces under
> Solaris, or to use remote CPU resources to compile software without
> leaving my local environment on an SGI.... 

	I see Plan 9 as a research system, just like Amoeba,
Sun's Spring... in Plan 9 (and later, Brazil) they have tried new
concepts. Now, in Inferno, you can see those concepts applied to a commercial
OS.

	I think that if they have released Plan 9 as they did, they wouldn't
mind if other OS developers used the new facilities introduced with Plan 9.

	Are those concepts (namespace manipulation, etc) covered by any patents?


	Borja.


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