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Plan9 is now Officially Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-isn't-that-special dept.

DrSkwid writes "The OSI have approved the revised license for the plan 9 operating system according to attendees returning from this year's Usenix Bof."

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  1. excellent by Boromir+son+of+Faram · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is great news for the Open Source community. While Plan9 is often rediculed as being outdated, it no doubt has its share of novel and useful algorithms, which may now be incorporated into more mainstream open source OSes such as Linux and the HURD (yes, it's still around).

    Open sourcing OS code has proven to be a good way to keep ailing systems relevant in the current marketplace. It kept BeOS and VMS from dying in obscurity, and even helped BSD limp along for a few more years.

    I predict nothing but good things from GNU/Plan9. Hopefully Debian will introduce a Plan9 distro, to go with their Darwin, HURD, and Linux distrii. I still have a few spare boxen lying around that I could use this on.

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  2. Re:FSF take? by the+morgawr · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You do know that that's talking about the OLD lisence right? A quick search of the page for those pharses would have told you that.

    It seems that this rewrite was an attempt to address Richard's concerns. That said I think some of these issues may still be valid, but IANAL.

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    The policy of the United States is worse than bad---it is insane. -- Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policy(1959)