Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:40:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: scanner@jurai.net, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112171036520.64181-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1AF03B.571C4EB6@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: :scanner@jurai.net wrote: :[ ... porting JFS for benchmark reasons ... ] :> However i'm with brad it would be better :> considering the nature of the GPL on JFS, to get co-operation from :> SGI. Maybe they would consider another point of view in licensing their :> XFS to the BSD folks. Then again maybe not. :When I talked to their Chief Scientist who had made the GPL'ing :decision about relicensing the code, and the fact that most of :the best academic FS hackers are in the BSD camp, and the fact :that you would not be able to take changes to the GPL'ed version :of the FS (derivative works of GPL'ed code), and reintegrated :them into IRIX, he was rather intractable. : :Now that SGI has virtually collapsed, and could use both the :press and free profressional help with their code, they might :have changed their tune, but don't bet on it. Last time I had :the discussions, it was very clear that they had The Religion. SGI is quietly abandoning The Religion as well. There's no money in commodity markets, and while they still offer Linux products, those offerings are getting fewer. Personally, and I've said here before, I love my SGIs. Some of the greatest hardware in existance, and a damn fine Unix on top as well, even if it is a SysV derivative. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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