On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:23:10PM -0400, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
>
> University of Utah, "Flux OSkit".
>
> Old OSkit is mostly BSD licensed (if you count the CMU Mach license
> as a BSD license), but at some point somebody sprayed the GPL over
> everything (somewhat reducing the utility of some CMU-derived code
> for a project here at CMU, but I digress).
>
> If you are looking for an approximation of the last non-GPL'd OSkit,
> I think this is probably it:
>
> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/download/fiasco-1.1-oskit.tar.bz2
Thanks to everyone for the pointers and the complementary informations
about the status. The idea seems logical at first and even rewarding for
hardware manufacturers (you can easily copy soft; cloning a device is
more difficult at home and certainly not cheaper...), since the more
OSes have drivers, the more customers can buy the devices. But since
there is a kind of OS dominating, there is a bias. And since, more and
more, even in "open" OSes, there are BLOBs...
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