From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:47:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:47:53 -0400 Received: from relay04.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.238]:7946 "EHLO relay04.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:47:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEFDBE4.5BE20C7C@opersys.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 14:45:56 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, French/Canada, French/France, fr-FR, fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mielke CC: Linus Torvalds , Wolfgang Denk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] In-Reply-To: <3CEFD65A.ED871095@opersys.com> <20020525143358.A4481@mark.mielke.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Mielke wrote: > None of which proves that it is the right way to do things. So, this is all about the "right way"? So the right way is to have everything in the kernel without memory protection? > >From what I understand, Linux _is_ being considered for RT applications > by quite a few heavy-weights in the field including IBM, Intel and > quite a few others. The patent issue that you present does not seem to be > discouraging them in any way. True, but see who you're pointing to: Intel and IBM. Both patent heavywheights. Do you really think they're going to run scared because of one tiny company with a questionnable patent? I personnally don't. They probably even have patents which invalidate the rtlinux patent. Those who do run scared are all those who develop embedded apps and don't have the size of IBM or Intel to carry them. And there a great deal of those. Karim =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karim@opersys.com Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert ===================================================