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

Wolfgang Denk
2002-05-25T18:14:30Z

In message <20020525134709.L405@marta> Kurt Wall wrote:
>
> > You can dimiss those who haven't chosen #4 as much as you want and
> > find all the reasons to justify your dismissal. It remains that the
> > embedded/rt market is closed to Linux because of the current situation.
>
> That dog won't hunt. There are more players in the Linux embedded/RT space
> than RTAI and RTLinux, which you have conveniently overlooked throughout
> this entire thread. Maybe at this time none of them are ready for $300
> IPO pops, but you can't make the argument that "RT is closed to Linux"
> when your only data points are RTAI and RTLinux.

...which are the only available free / GPL solutions. This is reason
enough to be scared. And some versions of RTLinux are not even
available under GPL (like RTLinux for MPC8xx CPUs). RTAI _is_
available, and under GPL, but the reputation is suffering under he
patent FUD.

Wolfgang Denk

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