1 posted on
08/15/2007 9:01:25 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ..
2 posted on
08/15/2007 9:01:48 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: N3WBI3
It is about whether vmkernel, a proprietary blob that can only be loaded by a Linux kernel, can be considered a derived work of Linux. This was covered on Slashdot.org quite a bit yesterday. The answer that satisfied me was that Linux kernel can actually stop itself after loading a completely foreign kernel, then pass control over to this second kernel which runs everything.
The Service Console is a version of Linux that runs on top of vmkernel and lets you configure and control other VMs.
3 posted on
08/15/2007 9:11:33 AM PDT by
ikka
To: N3WBI3
Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Cisco...the list is long of tech companies that have cashed in big on ideas and products they stole didn't originate.
To: N3WBI3
No surprise those green party leftists at the Free Software Foundation are trying to confiscate code from others again. They set the trap by claiming their software is “free” but if anyone uses it to make any money expect them to come crashing your door down that you violated their license, as in this case even when they’re wrong.
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