On 7/9/05, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > The Xen I am talking about is open source software by some guys at a > > university. It supports AMD and Intel equally as far as I can see. > > This thing is *far* from being "just a cool open-source project". > > This has Intel's hand all over it. In addition, it touches hardware. > Intel can defend their turf with both hardware *and* software patents. > > Way too much money is floating around this to not at least be a little > suspicious. > > It's a cool idea, but I wouldn't abandon the pure open-source efforts > either.
It also has IBM's hand all over it. So? Xen is GPL. You can't get much purer than that. Lots of projects have funding and help by businesses and have survived just fine. The worst that happens is the project forks into an Open- version, a la MOSIX. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
