Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:09:52 -0800 | From | Michael Bender <> | Subject | Re: [Libusb-devel] Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:47:43PM +0100, s.schmidt@avm.de wrote: > >>Compared to other operating systems, such as Mac OS, BeOS, >>Windows etc., Linux is walking a solitary path with the "user mode only" >>shift. One gets the impression, that legal concerns are leading Linux to a >>technically suboptimal/isolated solution. > > No, right now, Linux has the best latency numbers _by far_ than any > other operating system, so we can move stuff to userspace. > > And again, it's your legal issues that are forcing you that way, if you > change that, putting everything in the kernel would be fine :)
(Since this came to me via the libusb list, and we've kind of gone past libusb-specific-related discussion, I thought I'd add another question to the thread).
What's the rationale behind the dichotomy between userspace and kernel licensing models?
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