From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 4 1:24:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fep02-svc.tin.it (mta02-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1B114EEB for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 01:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from nympha.ecomotor.it ([212.216.29.97]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19990304092414.SLTA5552.fep02-svc@nympha.ecomotor.it> for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:24:14 +0100 Received: (qmail 6253 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Mar 1999 09:23:39 -0000 From: "Marco Molteni" Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:23:39 +0100 (CET) X-Sender: molter@nympha To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The GPL might kill itself ? In-Reply-To: <36DDACB4.629BE5B7@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Too beautiful to be true, but according to the GPL's objective, no code > without source code availability should be included in/with the Linux > kernel . This basicly kills two projects (under Linux): UDI and MOSIX. > > Look, for example at: > http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_gpl.html > > If Linux and the FSF don't surrender their ideals, we could have a clear > road ahead... For those who don't know MOSIX, the following is taken from their web page: MOSIX is a software module for supporting cluster computing. The core of MOSIX are adaptive resource sharing (load-balancing and memory ushering) algorithms and a preemptive (transparent) process migration mechanism, that allow a cluster of PCs (workstations and servers) to work cooperatively as if part of a single system. The MOSIX software provides some SMP/NUMA functionalities in a scalable cluster of PCs, for efficient execution of sequential and parallel applications. I contacted them about a year ago. Do you know the platform on wich they developed Mosix? BSD/OS!!!! I asked them if they planned a port to FreeBSD. They replied that they were considering to move to Linux due _only_ to Linux widespread use (ie they understood it was a "marketing" move)! They started with a BSD kernel and then moved to Linux. Now they have problems with the GPL. Maybe it's the right time to contact them and remember them of what the BSD licence is! ;-) Marco --- "Hi, I have a Compaq machine running Windows 95. How do I install FreeBSD?" "I'm sorry, this is device driver testing: brain implants are two doors down on the right". (Bill Paul, on the freebsd-net mailing list) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message