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    SubjectRe: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel
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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/

    Eric
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