Re: RT patch acceptance

Paulo Marques
2005-06-01T14:59:38Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:32:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
>>years of doing that in linux. I'm not a lawyer but you may want to
>>check before investing too much on this for the next 15 years. The
>
> Here's a link that may be of interest:
>
> http://www.fsmlabs.com/openpatentlicense.html
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=12&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,995,745&OS=5,995,745&RS=5,995,745

Did you read this?

All the claims in the "Claims" section of the patent text start with:

> providing a real time operating system for running real time tasks and components and non-real time tasks;
>
> providing a general purpose operating system as one of the non-real time tasks;

This seems like the RTAI kind of nano-kernel approach and has nothing to
do with the way the RT-PREEMPT patch works, AFAICS.

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