On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:57:37AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > And suppose that Red Hat would totally rewrite some small central part > of the kernel, making it deliberately incompatible, and not release the > source? And then market it agressively with bells and whistles? Who > would care that the kernel is not free to copy anymore, because of one > little module, which is truly copyrighted?
Redhat can't do that, because the kernel is GPL'd. It can't be a binary only module because of technical obstacles with writing core parts of the kernel as a module. Not to mention that it's probably a violation of the module clause to write a core part of the kernel as a binary only module. > It's so easy to turn Linux into a closed-source system. No, it isn't. Unless you have a more convinving argument than the one above? > So let's be careful about our ambitions, shall we? The day Linux becomes number 1, for MS values of number 1, I'll go work on something else. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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