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by fafner 4229 days ago
I think one of the main reasons why Plan 9 didn't succeed, was simply the fact that it wasn't free software from the beginning. Plan 9 was released around the same time as Linux. But it was treated as a secret and then tried to be directly marketed. That way it simply missed the opportunity that Linux took because Linux was free software. Only in 2002 was Plan 9 released under a free software license.