Messages in this thread | | | From | Wolfgang Denk <> | Subject | Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] | Date | Sat, 25 May 2002 20:13:57 +0200 |
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In message <20020525134709.L405@marta> Kurt Wall wrote: > > > You can dimiss those who haven't chosen #4 as much as you want and > > find all the reasons to justify your dismissal. It remains that the > > embedded/rt market is closed to Linux because of the current situation. > > 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.
...which are the only available free / GPL solutions. This is reason enough to be scared. And some versions of RTLinux are not even available under GPL (like RTLinux for MPC8xx CPUs). RTAI _is_ available, and under GPL, but the reputation is suffering under he patent FUD.
Wolfgang Denk
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