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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >... ???. I am not so sure. Kernel is really a small thing. The VMWare
> >proprietary hyper-visor was/is reusing Linux drivers with ease, why BSD or
> >Hurd can not do the same? As a former (Linux) driver writer I like to show the
> >following numbers to my friends:
> 
> Oh well I was rather interpreting the question as "What about Hurd?" and 
> my answer was the same from the Hurd page last time I read it.
> "It's not so complete to make up a production system." or similar.

Well, that will be very simple.  If the Hurd gets relicensed to be
GPLv3, it won't be able to use Linux kernel device drivers any more,
because they will be GPLv2, and the GPLv2 and GPLv3 licenses are
incompatible.  But that's the FSF's problem, not ours...

						- Ted

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