Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:31:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <20010209123118.D64219@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <3A8446FA.DCD17C7E@thebarn.com>; from cattelan@thebarn.com on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:37:30PM -0600 References: <200102090856.BAA08304@usr08.primenet.com> <3A8446FA.DCD17C7E@thebarn.com>
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--6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:37:30PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote: > The one major requirement is that somebody like Sun or > IBM can't pick up the code and start commercializing it. > And no I'm not saying restricting a commercial product > with XFS, but restricting somebody from making XFS > a commercial product unto itself. Hah, I knew it. SGI *are* using the GPL as a weapon to prevent their competitors from making money from it, and to draw customers away from other FS implementations from their competitors onto Linux. In other words, it's okay for anyone to use the code, as long as they don't benefit from it. I don't have a problem with this attitude per se, but it does blow a neat hole in the side of the PR arguments which have been coming out of SGI since they first started using the strategy about SGI's firm dedication to the Open Source Community<tm>, or rather the motivations behind it. Kris --6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6hFOWWry0BWjoQKURApKOAJ990glFiXwu0F+T0xK3Gxnh5c9KIQCfbVAM pVoycHVTOVJDnnKizNTt/EM= =YOhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6WlEvdN9Dv0WHSBl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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