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From: Douglas A. Gwyn DAGwyn@nul...
Subject: [9fans] re: license terms?
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:14:48 GMT

Tom Glinos wrote:
> The real question in my mind is how do we get good corporate research
> into the general community in todays environment. Plan 9's ultimate
> value may not be in finished code, but in the spread of good ideas.

Indeed.  Rob & Dennis described some of Plan 9's key ideas to me
well before it was "released", and I adapted some of the thinking
to a large networked project I was working on.  Not everything has
to be done as part of an operating system.  (Witness Inferno on
foreign-OS hosts.)