On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 00:24:03 AM -0500, JJ Gitties
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> The sooner they fork SUSE the sooner they can get a head start on
> the project. For all the SUSE fans here, you should be happy of a
> fork. You will still have a SUSE.
>
Forking is either useless or very, very expensive (effort wise) when
patents are involved. It only solves easily copyright and trademark
issues.
E.g., to get Centos from RHEL you must, more or less, only strip and
replace all the occurrences of Red Hat strings, logos and similar from
the sources and recompile. A semi-automatic process.
If Linux violates sw patents, to change ANY Linux distribution to
something patent-free you must first *find* all the places in the
source where violations occur and then, for each of them, figure out
and develop another _algorithm_ to do the same thing. Assuming another
way _exists_, of course.
Ciao,
Marco
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