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And yes. this will be open source.  The designs will be released under 
the GPL Documentation License, but the code will be under something 
other than the GPL.  I haven't decided just what yet

Jeff

jmerkey wrote:

>
> I haven't written a line of code for this yet on Linux, but I have 
> kept this design in my head and evolved it over the years in the back 
> of my head.  Wiki's come close in terms of the ideas but that's only a 
> shadow of what was conceived so long ago.  I have watched the industry 
> patiently for many years on this list, waiting, and I have seen some 
> elements of this scheme emerge, but have been disappointed since 
> humans just seem to feel more comfortable inside the box, and not go 
> out of it.
>
> I've worked extensively in the Linux VFS and I/O subsystems and 
> created companies that have sold for millions of dollars with 
> specialized file systems with extreme levels of performance.   I 
> believe I can finally pull this off in Linux.  This is a big project, 
> and I cannot do it alone.  I also dislike the GPL because it concedes 
> control of something kernel.org could copyright as "the organization 
> of kernel.org" and control over the internet and allow healthier 
> businesses to grow around it.  I am proposing not just a file system 
> or clustering, but a unique architecture and new communication model 
> for the internet for collaborative sharing at the kernel level with 
> distributed data and routing facilities and disconnectable 
> operations.  It does not resemble anything that exists today.  This FS 
> will not be released under the GPL but the BSD-mod license on Linux 
> with a kicker that contributors can retain copyrights.   Since binary 
> modules are allowed, any contributor gets a share of the booty -- Just 
> for fun. 
> Al Petrofsky and Pamela Jones managed to hornswaggle the Novell 
> Settlement agreement onto the internet, and it speaks for itself.  At 
> this point, people I think know there are no IP claims related to any 
> "intallagible knowledge."   So now it's time.  I have my own NOS, but 
> I had always wanted to share, which for some reason you folks never 
> get that part.   I am doing this "Just for Fun" at this point and for 
> no other reason.   I dropped the lawsuits and flushed out the turkeys, 
> and its time to get back to work.  This time without the "sword of 
> damacles" hanging over my head.  It's pretty hard to get the whole 
> internet to hate you, but somehow I succeeded.  Now time to pay the dues.
> Website is:
>
> en.wikigadugi.org
>
> Post bugs for Linux here.
> FTP is:
>
> ftp.wikigadugi.org
>
> Give me a couple of days, and I will be starting on my off time.    I 
> work best alone, but we will see how it goes.   I've had more than 
> enough of the wire brush of enlightenment in the last year, so I think 
> I'm well on my way to playing better in the sandbox.
> White papers will be up in the next several weeks on the wiki.  I need 
> to go over with folks who are interested in building a metropolitan 
> area network architecture in a collaborative setting the layout and 
> architecture and it needs to be flushed out.    I am doing this for me 
> alone and just for the fun of building it.   This is something Novell 
> doesn't have, Darl McSwine doesn't have, and M$ doesn't have.  Let's 
> get there first.  It will appear FIRST on the Linux Operating System.
>
> Jeff
>

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