Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005

From: Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@sci.fi>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOSZoo will stop March 1, 2005
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:23:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9f2192af722a2012a1b67bbc05a7901@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108700993.18898.119.camel@aragorn>

Another, or complimentary, way to make money would be to have a working 
"Linux on Mac" solution.  There is none.

This was discussed recently on the Mac-on-Linux (MOL) mailing list, and 
offers for 'donations' (against a working implementation ;) started to 
drop in.. I see both MOL and QEMU to have the capabilities to do what 
it takes, a 'Virtual Linux' box running under OS X. Oh, PowerPC flavor, 
not x86..

Still another.. Something like Scratchbox (embedded Linux sandbox 
environment, targetting Linux/ppc and Linux/arm from Linux/x86 host), 
but for the PowerPC host.  That's basically just an extension of the 
above plan.

-ak

18.2.2005 kello 06:29, John R. Hogerhuis kirjoitti:

  Fabrice,
>
> I've followed this project for a while, and though I'm not surprised 
> the
> zealots are coming out of the woodwork, I am surprised by the vehemence
> of some of the long time users.
>
> I think your strategy is sound. You need a benefactor, and QEMU is
> certainly useful enough to deserve that. I don't see the problem of
> using your new kqemu as a temporary lever to get you and your project 
> to
> the next level. No one is losing anything, and if your strategy works,
> everybody will gain. My point of view: Free software isn't about being
> Jesus, holding hands and singing Kumbaya... it's about getting what we
> want, the way we want it... Free, Open Source, High Quality, Soon, and
> without putting developers in the poor house. If you have a stategy in
> mind to maximize those benefits, utilizing some new code you wrote, I
> say, why the heck not?
>
> I hope your lever gets what you want. All of this doom-and-gloom is 
> just
> a lot of noise, the way you've licensed this from the beginning as free
> and open source, your other FLOSS projects, and should engender a lot
> more trust than people seem to be granting you.
>
> The conspiracy theories about QEMU-fast are absolutely ludicrous. It 
> was
> a kludge, a stop-gap dead-end. Patched kernels is really not a long 
> term
> solution. Good for what it was. Personally I never bothered running
> qemu-fast.
>
> Good luck with your strategy, I hope it works out.
>
> -- John.
>
>
>
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