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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:31:36 +0100
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
        richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re:  [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
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In-Reply-To: <3A0A968B.85A6770E@holly-springs.nc.us>; from "Michael Rothwell" on 2000-11-09T07:20:27
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On 2000-11-09T07:20:27,
   Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> said:

> > I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations
> > if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload
> > core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed
> > source, vendor specific Linux on high end machines.
> 
> Since Linux is GPL, how would you stop this?

Christoph / SAP is in a rather good position to stop that being supported by
vendors...

> Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
> over other OSes is the GPL. 

And that is why that has to govern the kernel and its modules as far as
possible.

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>
    Development HA

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