Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:13:36 -0500 | From | Terry L Ridder <> | Subject | Re: UDI and Politics (was Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.) |
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Hello;
Alan raises a rather interesting point which had not occurred to me. Upon digging a little deeper, it would seem that several of the Project UDI backers are also backers of the I2O consortium. Alan's analogy is therefore very enlightening. Either the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, or they do what they are doing and Linux and the Linux Community are the target.
Consider this:
From http://www.sco.com/udi we know the following: HP, SCO, Sun, Lockheed-Martin, InterPhase, Compaq/Digital, IBM, Intel, and Adaptec are backers.
From http://www.i2osig.org/SIG/Members98.html we know the following:
Steering Committee Members Adaptec Hewlett-Packard Company Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation NetFRAME Systems Incorporated Novell, Inc. Symbios Wind River Systems
Contributing Members: Compaq Computer Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation InterPhase Corporation SCO SunSoft, Inc.
It seems that all of the known Project UDI with the exception of IBM are also backers of I2O. What is even more interesting is that Adaptec, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel are Steering Committee Members. Nearly all others are contributing members, with again IBM being the noticeable exception.
With this new information, I do believe we the Linux Community have found the "currency of trade". Project UDI has clearly stated that they want/need the Linux Community helps. The price will be the following:
I2O becomes totally open, just like Project UDI, in fact I2O would use the following to indicate this:
(This is taken straight from the Project UDI Policies and Procedures Document dated November 5th, 1995, I edited specifically for I2O)
<Begin Quote> 1. Purpose The purpose of the I2O working group is to define and promote a technical specification for high-performance I/O systems.
Participation in the specification process includes a number of OS vendors and IHVs, and is open to new participants at any time.
Intelluctual Property
The I2O specification is intended to be publicly available for implementation by anyone, whether or not they are participants in the working group.
The _definition_ of any specification developed by the working group will be placed in the public domain, not subject to copyright, patent, or any other intellectual property right, so that any party may implement or utilize the specification. However, any party may develop and assert intellectual property rights over a particular _implementation_ of the interface. <End Quote>
That I suggest is the price for our help. If Project UDI does not like the price, we do as Alan has suggested, ignore them.
The more I think about this the more I like it.
Alan Cox Wrote: > > > - Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers (Alan's been involved a bit, > > though). > > Im not interested in UDI. If SCO want to show a miraculous change of heart > let them as a major member of the I2O consortium get the documentation > that opened. The stuff in the drafts they accidentally let for anonymous > FTP showed I2O would work very well with Linux and its configure and > i960 side device interfaces are reasonably well designed and truely > OS independant > > While SCO have their left hand on the I2O binary sword I can't take the open > right hand terribly seriously. > > But thats a personal viewpoint > > Alan >
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