IMHO, every code need copy right
especial someone else try to make $ out of your code
my 2c

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Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D

On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:40, Ron Chen <[email protected]> wrote:

> --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Mark Dixon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm still a bit fuzzy on what differentiates the efforts,
>> and am concerned that the projects might not be pulling in a
>> common direction to benefit the community as a whole.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> In fact our existance benefits the community -- did you know that we fixed 
> the memory accounting bug on Linux in the Open Grid Scheduler back in Aug 
> last year, and Son of Grid Engine copied our fix? And Univa Grid Engine 8.0.0 
> still has that bug *as of today*, and its customers need to wait for 8.0.1 to 
> get a fix.
> 
> And I hightly doubt Univa would put as much effort as it is now and add the 
> hwloc support into the open core if we did not announce our hwloc support 
> back in April:
> 
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/projects/hwloc/GridEnginehwloc.html
> 
> Also, I strongly believe that Univa will now put more effort in to get GPU 
> integration, IPv6 support, SGI MPT integration, etc into the open core ASAP 
> as we are working on those features in Open Grid Scheduler.
> 
> When there is no competition, most businesses tend not to work hard to gain 
> market share - and I don't think Univa is different.
> 
> 
>> Isn't this what the steering committee was aiming to improve?
>> As far as I can see, there's been no news posted to
>> gridengine.org since February.
> 
> The page is old, and Stephen Dennis quited Univa as well.
> 
> 
>> I'm not trying to have a go at anyone, I think everyone
>> wants what is best for the community: I'm just hoping for a
>> bit more constructive discussion about what that might be
>> :)
> 
> 
> I have a tendency not to trust companies, as a lot of them are somewhat 
> dishonest and lack of integrity in order to gain a customer or two. I have 
> not totally written off Univa yet, but what Univa posted on the website about 
> open source Grid Engine is not true (and the ones most piss me off are "UGE 
> Wins Hands Down" & "Free Grid Engine isn't Free"?) -- so at this point 
> working with Univa is out of the question.
> 
> And even outout the stupid market tactics, Univa is never clear what would be 
> put in the open core and what is closed source. I am not signing the copy 
> right assignment - they can continue to copy my code and feature as they 
> wanted.
> 
> -Ron
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Mark
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