Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 07 May 2003 10:57:41 -0600 |
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"Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name> writes:
> Hi Eric. > > >> I disagree. Many of the most successful TCP stacks _forked_ from the > >> BSD one at some time or other (e.g. SunOS, Microsoft), but then they > >> evolved in their own directions, with their unique quirks. > > > And that ultimate fate and people shutting up has created a number of > > advocates for the GPL. And at the very least people will now insist > > on getting the source and the writes to modify and share their > > modifications of the source. To some extent this is behind the large > > national labs wanting Linux on their supercomputers. > > Do you have any web pointers relating to this issue or those advocates?
That enumerates these issues no. From a practical standpoint on systems built or proposed, I can here are a couple.
From Lawrence Livermore National Labs see MCR: http://www.llnl.gov/linux/mcr Position #5 on the top500 list http://top500.org/list/2002/11/ see the ASCI Purple RFP: http://www.llnl.gov/asci/purple/
From Los Alamos National Labs see Pink: http://www.lanl.gov/projects/pink/
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