Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933213AbXEWOf2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:35:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756193AbXEWOfP (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:35:15 -0400 Received: from pubbox.net ([81.169.167.142]:59366 "EHLO pubbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756156AbXEWOfO (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 10:35:14 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1116 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:35:14 EDT Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200 From: Gergo Szakal To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source? Message-Id: <20070523162344.e8847387.bastyaelvtars@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1719 Lines: 46 Greetings to all list-members! Recently I have read that Google are selling enterprise hardware that is running a modified version of the Linuk kernel [1]. I decided to ask them whether the source is available. I did this via the question form they offered. Their officer told me that the source is not available to the public. I then asked whether the source was available to customers only, and the same officer responded that the source code for the search engine is not publicly available. Since this indicates that my mail must have been unclear, I mailed them again: > Thanks for the informantion, however I was interested in the modified > Linux kernel's code, since I understand that your search technology is > way too much work. So far, I have not received any response (as soon as I do, I am going to post it here). I am posting this mail because I am sure certain members on this list are much more aware of this and can provide me more information on the subject. I would not like to start any flamewars. I would be very happy to see that Google are actually co-developers of the Linux kernel, since such a backend is always good. I was just mailing them to make things clearer and since this was unsuccessful, I posted here. So my exact question: What do you know about this? Can you provide me more information? Thanks in advance for your replies! Please CC me because I am not subscribed to the list. [1] http://tinyurl.com/yv88oq -- Gergo Szakal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/