Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:43 EST From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: reinventing vs copying Message-ID: <32923fad0.15a6@databus.databus.com>
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I'd like to understand better than I do (which is hardly at all) why it seems (to me) as though all the SMP work is being done without reference to what other SMP-capable OS's do. I do understand that code cannot be copied, certainly from the commercial systems and not even from Linux without complying with the GPL, but what prevents the borrowing of ideas or even the discussion of how common problems are handled by other, seemingly working, implementations? Is it that the information is not available, or has it been the experience that the other systems don't really solve the problems that are showing up? Or is it that a more-or-less clean-room implementation is being attempted to avoid even the suspicion of theft? Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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