Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:11:22 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <199906150011.TAA34872@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 04:53:23 PDT." <000001beb65c$812bf260$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
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"David Schwartz" writes: > > Forgive me for making an argument with which I do not agree, but I think I > can do it clearly: > > The XFS filesystem would not be useful alone, right? > > You would need the Linux kernel to use it. You would need to use *a* kernel to use it. SGI already uses it with Irix. So by the above argument, sendmail, XFree86, perl, etc, are all useless without a kernel to support them. Therefore they too must be infected with GPL? :-) Actually the big difference is that XFS is something that will be used *by* the kernel. While regular programs are something that *uses* the kernel. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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