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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
    On 2000-11-09T07:20:27,
    Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> said:

    > > I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations
    > > if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload
    > > core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed
    > > source, vendor specific Linux on high end machines.
    >
    > Since Linux is GPL, how would you stop this?

    Christoph / SAP is in a rather good position to stop that being supported by
    vendors...

    > Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
    > over other OSes is the GPL.

    And that is why that has to govern the kernel and its modules as far as
    possible.

    Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
    Development HA

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