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  1. almost 14 years of actual use on Plan9 is now Officially Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative
    Plan 9 has been in use for almost 14 years.

    We have 38 system calls, along with 10 now-deprecated calls.

    Kernel functionality is added by serving more files from the kernel, not by adding calls. For example, there's no time(2) system call -- programs read /dev/time instead. And so on.

  2. Re:Open Source, only in US and Canda on Plan9 is now Officially Open Source · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is NOT true.

    We do IP address checks to make sure you're in a country that the U.S. allows us to export crypto to, and that is all.

  3. Re:Viral or free? on Plan9 is now Officially Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative
    I thought viral and free were the same. At least in the case of the GPL they are.

    I worked on this license. It is NOT viral.

    It's basically the IBM license but changed not to be viral. Contributions must be covered by the same license, but that only applies if you declare your changes to be a Contribution.

    If you want to take the code and go work on a closed project, no problem.

  4. Re:Umm, on Plan9 is now Officially Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative
    I put the file there.

    Our web server and FTP server serve the same files. /hidden is the exception to the rule, meaning that you can't list that directory using the FTP server (or the web server). We use it for things we don't want people stumbling upon. The license files were kept there when we were doing the initial OSI approval, and we just haven't moved them yet.