Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:33:25 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Rob Wilkens wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:26, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > It is presumptuous. Very much so. > I'll accept that on face value, and take your comments five comments as > good pieces of information which I'll comment only briefly on.
Also take into account that your claim to faim -- vxWorks, a real time commercial operating system, may not of the same calibre as Linux.
Why do I doubt the calibre of vxWorks? People I trust who work on RT systems have told me that in many cases, products with RT requirements can perform better on Linux, than on vxWorks. (Better meaning managing a higher capacity without significant side effects)
For your suggestion that writing an operating system is not hard -- I agree with your chosen qualification of 'a'. Most anybody who passes 1st year in CS at university can complete 'a' DOS-like operating system.
Not just anybody could take this operating system to the next step in less than a year. I consider Linux several steps above DOS.
Also, FYI, most of the patches that I see coming through here are patches to *other* people's code, usually code that has not existed more than a few months. Which doesn't mean that Linus' code is flawless.
Just -- evolution has a price. Sometimes bad, inefficient, or last generation code must be heavily maintained, or thrown completely out, to be replaced by code that itself may contain bugs. Since this is "Linux-devel", and not "Linux-stable", I don't see how you could expect anything else. How many patches do you see for Linux-2.0.x, or Linux-2.2.x? You'll note that the majority are for Linux-2.5.x and then Linux-2.4.x. Do the math. Figure it out.
mark
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