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On Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > So Hans and others could develop very cool features that 'plugin' |
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> > > to reiser4fs, but, if they choose, folks would have to *PAY* for |
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> > > these advanced features. That's the whole rub (in essence) as to |
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> > > why reiser4fs will never make it into the kernel. Lots of kernel |
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> > > folks *do not trust Hans Reiser*....... |
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> > that accusations came up. I remember. But what about the extremly |
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> > patched Distro kernels? They 'enhance' the kernels with 'special |
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> > features' and demand money for them (yes, I look at you Redhat and |
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> > Suse). |
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> Which proves that the GPL is working AS DESIGNED. What's wrong with |
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> that? |
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> Red Hat don't lock you out from their stuff. The fee you pay is in |
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> return for a promise from RH that if you have a problem with their |
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> stuff and phone them, they will pick up the phone and talk to you. |
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> If you don't like the fee structure, you know where the src rpm's are, |
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> you just don't get the human support you didn't pay for. There's always |
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> Centos who quite happily rebuild Red Hat's special stuff for you. |
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> As for SuSE, there's no evil there. A lot of stupidity and a lot of |
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> dumb-ass Novell who can't see a tree because there's a huge forest in |
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> the way, but no evil. |
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no, you misunderstood me. Why the 'oh my god, reiser4 might be able to use rd |
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party commercial modules (which would have to have compiled into the kernel - |
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thus must be GPLed)' but 'hey, patching kernel with commercial stuff is ok' |
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when it is is done by RedHAT and Suse. |
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And don't forget ccXFS. A cluster extension for XFS by SGI. Closed source, not |
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open - and all the hooks for it are in linux-xfs. |
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So for XFS it was ok to have the ability to load a closed source extension, |
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but for reiser4 it was not ok to habe the ability to extent itself with open |
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source extensions. |
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Do you see the problem? |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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