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

Larry McVoy
2002-05-26T04:03:30Z

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:45:42PM -0700, David Schleef wrote:
> > Good luck making that stick in court. First of all, the RTAI guys have
> > admitted over and over that RTAI is a fork of the RTLinux source base.
>
> Paolo (the maintainer) hasn't. I (the second largest contributor)
> hasn't. I understand why others talk about RTAI and RTLinux forking,

http://www.tux.org/pub/devel/LINUX-LAB/RTAPPS/paolo/myrtlinux-0.6.README

> I actually _do_ my research.

Me too. I've been here before, I was one of about 8 people who actually
knew that AT&T should have won the BSD lawsuit because I diffed the code.
And you can't diff it with a perl script, that simply doesn't work. The
only real ways that I know of are
a) have a human do it, function by function
b) compile the code to an expression tree and then diff the expression
trees.
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