Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:23:06 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: beos-bootloader? (fwd) |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Richard Stallman wrote: > [SNIP] > > Also, it would make sense to ask, "Is this software useful for the > > free software community"? If it can't be of any use except on BeOS,
Their filesystem concept is _very_ useful. AFAIK, their filesystem is a transactional database of both metadata and data, while the BSD-FFS derivatives are just metadata databases, with pointers into a non-transactional data area.
> > then its usefulness to us is limited. And if the idea is that Be will > > make some program free, perhaps it is best just to insist "Make the > > program that uses our code free". > > I imageine the best thing for all parties would be for Be to make their > kernel free.
[SNIP]
> Furthermore, even if they did not *copy* code in the kernel proper.. I'de > like to know what *ideas* they borrowed.. :) (i.e. they didn't just take > the code, but they took the concept)..
That's no problem, since we don't patent any of our algorithms :-)
Furthermore, Be has published all of it's philosophies and ideas used in their system...
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