Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 14:32:46 -0400 | From | Karim Yaghmour <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] |
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Kurt Wall wrote: > Sorry, I must have lost track of this argument. I thought the point of > contention was the RTLinux patent, which seems pretty clear on the key > issue: if your stuff is GPL, we're GPL; if you make money, we want a slice > of the pie. Now it almost sounds like you're telling us that the real > issue is that you can't make your own Linux-as-nonfree-rtos. Well, I'm not > very smart, so maybe I've misunderstood.
Don't take my word for it. Here's an article written by Jerry Epplin in February 2001: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2094189920.html
He ends his article with the following: "It seems to me, RTLinux is a fine system with great potential when thought of as an open-source project. I'm not sure it will fare as well when looked at as a commercial RTOS."
As for my own opinion, please reread my first post. It clearly says that the current rtlinux patent situation (in its entirety) is a show-stopper for Linux. Everything I said after that all boils down to explaining this point of view.
> That dog won't hunt. There are more players in the Linux embedded/RT space > than RTAI and RTLinux, which you have conveniently overlooked throughout > this entire thread. Maybe at this time none of them are ready for $300 > IPO pops, but you can't make the argument that "RT is closed to Linux" > when your only data points are RTAI and RTLinux.
Care to look at the VDC report conducted over 11,000 developers. Result: the #1 fact inhibiting Linux's adoption in the embedded space is "real-time limitations."
Don't listen to me, listen to 11,000 developers ...
Karim
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