Dave writes:

> So who develops the kernel?

The SMSQ/E kernel (memory and task managament, scheduling and IO) is , if I
remember correctly, some 10k and is hardly the first candiate for
development as it has worked well enough these last 8(?) years with minimal
modification...

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> And have the ability to test it on any and every hardware combination, or
> on hardware that may itself be under development and changing ten times a
> day.

I wonder if this really is the provenance of the registrar. The
platform-specific stuff could surely be managed on the technical level by
the developer(s) responsible?

> I agree with you 'mostly', that the emphasis of debate is on the wrong
> things, but the things you discuss are not worded in the license, and the
> things that *are* worded in the license are the rules under which we must
> work.

True, perhaps. But this is an early peek at the post-license stage of this
discussion.

> It is only natural for someone to try and get the best working environment
> possible, be they user, developer, reseller or God! ;)

God seems to have made rather a mess of things so perhaps His is not such
a good example ;)

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