"Mario." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Professional and Free version. At that time Yodaiken claimed that RTAI > > violated his patent, and the RTAI folks claimed they did not. At the time, > > He would be FOOL not to claim that. It would be more like sending this > message: > "Dear military/aerospace agency/manufacturer. We heard there is a free > alternative to our RT-Linux. No need to send us any more money. Feel > free to use the non-paid version." > > Would anyone do that intentionally?
The issue is considerable more complicated. When last I checked, RT-Linux (pro version) had a guaranteed latency of something like 4us (which was much better than RTAI's 20us at the time IIRC). Also, RT-Linux was very well supported, so it was not just free vs. commercial, but one of support. The real question would come to what a judge decided if it went to court, and no one cared enough to either fund a cease-and-desist or patent-challenge. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
