Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]y

[Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de>]

Nicholas, 

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:13:25AM +0200, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
> In my opinion it is obvious that the RT comunity that was RTLinux and
> RTAI for quite a while was "stealing" ideas and code from each other -
> and that is a very good thing to happen in GPL'ed environments, there was
> for a long time one mailing list and that was being shared in a
> productive manner by both groups. The fact that the two groups splitt up
> and are fighting each other is what is really hurting both sides a lot
> and probably also hurting Linux in the market that has interest in
> hard-realtime. 

I strongly support this statement, and I'm pretty sure all the RTAI
developers do the same. It would be _much_ better for all people involved
in the realtime Linux development if we would work _together_ like in the
very beginning instead of fighting each other. Too much energy has been
wasted yet.  

And honestly, I'm also thinking that even from the commercial point of
view, a situation where the realtime Linux community joins it's forces to
create the best General Purpose Realtime Operating System on earth in terms
of _technical_ arguments would not be a bad one. For _everyone_, FSM-Labs
and the rest of the world. 

But that's just my 0.02 Euro.

Robert
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