From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b90404e71c953be5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-15 09:39:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E9C3236.1080902@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Q re Plan 9 (Was Experiences with GPS-IDE) References: <3E9AA2C7.2BF8389B@konad.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:24:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1050423862 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:24:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:24:22 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36167 Date: 2003-04-15T12:24:22-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Stephen Leake wrote: > : and am extremely biased against > : using a mouse, > > Allow yourself the Plan 9 experience and this might change. > It feels very different, and is also a good reminder of what > _could_ be done with useful mouse functions in a _productive_ > "GUI". > > For a poor man's variant for Unices, wily might be of some > interest: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/intro.html Have they changed the licensing of Plan 9 yet? The very last that I read (quite some time ago), they could revoke your right to use the O/S at any time (whether or not it was for personal use). This was an unacceptable condition for me, if I am to invest any time or effort for that platform. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg