From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:27:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:27:10 -0400 Received: from relay01.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.235]:35088 "EHLO relay01.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 02:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF07FC5.B1C717AC@opersys.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 02:25:09 -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: Larry McVoy CC: Wolfgang Denk , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtai@rtai.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] In-Reply-To: <20020525161034.L28795@work.bitmover.com> <20020525235442.CFB3511972@denx.denx.de> <20020525210538.E19792@work.bitmover.com> 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 Larry McVoy wrote: > RTAI crowd is trying to rewrite history and that does nothing but make me > more motivated to stick around and make sure people look at this closely. Larry, you've missed the entire point here. You can dismiss the RTAI crowd all you want, but you can't take away the fact that developers are choosing not to use Linux in the embedded field because of serious intellectual property issues regarding its real-time capabilities. This matter goes far beyond RTAI and would still apply even if you were to write a new rt micro-kernel for Linux from scratch without starting from either RTAI or RTLinux. Nothing you have said until now changes this fact. Karim =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karim@opersys.com Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert ===================================================