Oh good, then as one of the major founder members of the I2O cabal does that
mean they'll be trying to get I2O made open ?
> encouragement of open systems development. SCO, with Intel and Project UDI,
> will support the open source community by working to ensure that UDI works
> on the Linux operating system.
"We'd like to fill your truely free OS with binary drivers and ruin things"
is at least one take on the potential _effect_ of such things regardless of
good intentions that may exist. Now there are easy ways to counteract that
one is to ensure the code that Linux UDI modules are _linked_ with is
all GPL.
> Anderson continued, "The Linux and open source movements are powerful
> forces in the industry that are creating a huge resurgence in the interest
"Help help we're being overrun" ;)
UDI does actually seem to have some technical problems with Linux paticularly
on the infrastructure side. It's visibly designed for things that are at
least common in their core interfaces (ie they run a V7 derived unix core
with BSD nailed on streams or similar networking stack)
The networking one shows up elsewhere - At one point I was trying to build
an NDIS5 layer for Linux but NDIS has the 'multiple buffers per packet'
religion built into it, even though the rest of it is credibly portable.
Alan
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