From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 16 15:22:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3051F37B426; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.22] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fBGNM9801745; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:22:09 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011215122158.A87600@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011215112539.L85108@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011215122158.A87600@monorchid.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:34:19 +0100 To: Greg Lehey , scanner@jurai.net From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Cc: Brad Knowles , Hiten Pandya , Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:21 PM +1030 on 2001/12/15, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Yes doing so would be nice. For that exact reason. To see some real >> numbers and how they stack up. However i'm with brad it would be better >> considering the nature of the GPL on JFS, to get co-operation from >> SGI. Maybe they would consider another point of view in licensing their >> XFS to the BSD folks. Then again maybe not. > > I'd bet on them not doing it. They're a lot more likely to do it than IBM. > Feel free to go ahead. But I really don't think that you'll have much > success. Don't get me wrong, I think that XFS has a lot of advantages > too. You're more likely to get SGI to respond positively than IBM. -- Brad Knowles, H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message