Brian KErnighan : As for Plan 9, I think that's too late, unfortunately. I think Plan 9 was a great idea and it should've been released under an open-source license when it was first done, eight years ago, but our legal guardians would not permit it. I think that they made a grievous mistake. The current open-source license is definitely worth having but it's not clear whether Plan 9, at least as a general-purpose operating system, will have much effect except in a relatively small niche. It has many things going for it which make it valuable in different areas, particularly where you need a small and highly portable operating system, but is it going to take over from Linux? Probably not. For the full interview go to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/ <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mihaib/kernighan-interview/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________ Global Software Platforms GE Medical Systems A1 Golden Enclave, Airport Road, Bangalore, India 560 017 Tel : +91-80-526 3121|3496 Ext 362 Surf : www.gemedicalsystems.com | www.shourya.com ---------------------------------------------- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
