From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:21:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:21:45 -0400 Received: from mark.mielke.cc ([216.209.85.42]:6158 "EHLO mark.mielke.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:21:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:15:53 -0400 From: Mark Mielke To: Dana Lacoste Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A reply on the RTLinux discussion. Message-ID: <20020529111553.A15457@mark.mielke.cc> In-Reply-To: <1022604318.4123.114.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3CF42179.29A2CAED@linux-m68k.org> <20020528213457.A22540@mark.mielke.cc> <1022680446.9043.5.camel@dlacoste.ottawa.loran.com> <1022685475.4124.229.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1022682030.9044.8.camel@dlacoste.ottawa.loran.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:20:29AM -0400, Dana Lacoste wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 11:17, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 14:54, Dana Lacoste wrote: > > > This would be retarded. I mean, seriously, making the linux kernel > > > require anybody who's doing any commercial real-time stuff pay Victor > > proprietary, not commercial. > Which brings us back to Larry's comments on business models. > It's becoming increasingly difficult to operate a non-proprietary > commercial software business these days. > I wish it weren't so, but it IS. If RedHat is filing patents, then > it's fairly apparent that RedHat thinks so too, isn't it? I don't see the patent stopping people from creating non-proprietary commercial software. I *do* see the patent perhaps forcing people who make money off non-Open Source extensions to have some sort of deal with Victor. I don't see what is unfair about this. mark -- mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/