Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:31:36 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) |
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On 2000-11-09T07:20:27, Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> said:
> > I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations > > if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload > > core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed > > source, vendor specific Linux on high end machines. > > Since Linux is GPL, how would you stop this?
Christoph / SAP is in a rather good position to stop that being supported by vendors...
> Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux > over other OSes is the GPL.
And that is why that has to govern the kernel and its modules as far as possible.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> Development HA
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