Bell-Labs Releases New Version Of Plan 9

F2F writes "Plan 9 from Bell Labs Fourth Release was announced yesterday marking a major overhaul of the entire operating system. VMware images are now supported, together with hoards of new hardware. The operating system now sports a new security model (on top of the old one, which was already quite secure), new network-resident secure storage system and improvements in the thread library, among others. See the release notes here: release4 notes or simply go to the download page at: plan9 download." T. adds: erikdalen sent in these links to critiques of the Plan 9 license from Richard Stallman and Nathan Myers.

Comments

interesting ideas, unacceptable license

[j09824]

Plan 9 has some interesting ideas, and the code is probably clearnly written. It would be nice if it were an open source operating system so that people could use it, built commercial systems on top of it, contribute to it, and enhance it.

Unfortunately, the Plan 9 license is unacceptable, as Stallman and Myers point out. And it doesn't look like that's going to change either.

Re:interesting ideas, unacceptable license

[Japanese Fuckslut]

It's Bell Labs' OS, so they're allowed to call the shots about how its licensed. I prefer to judge an OS based on what it can do for me, rather than whether or not it is sanctioned by Richard Stallman & friends.

Re:Bell Labs?

[Japanese Fuckslut]

Bell Labs is part of Lucent, but still exists as a distinct entity. It's Lucent's R&D division.

RMS in ignorant kneekerk reaction: News at 11

[cmkrnl]

Its great being an ivory tower socialist when everyone else is paying your bills. You never have to live by the rules you dictate to everyone else.

If he was fscked out on his hypocritical arse and made earn a living in the real world like the rest of us. The ultra left GPL^H^H^Hnewspeak would soon change.

Curmudgeon.