Re: Is it legal for me to do that?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:02:14 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:16:34AM -0500, papiraki@kdb.ml.org wrote:

> > > I am a student in computer sciences, and I've been asked to do my
> > > final project on the wonderfull world of OSs, more specifictly, I
> > > have to take the pc-xinu "Opperating System" and make it better.

[SNIP]

> Just try to ask that for permission to write some Linux-extensions.
> Another filesystem and another executable-format (eg. an extended ELF
> would be nice). An easier to handle LILO or ..............
>
> This way it would (IMHO) have two advantages: you can profit from a
> running system which is very stable and proved. Your writings would get
> back to community and would (perhaps) get used.

A big "But I want to code something /useful/, not waste a whole
year on some academic code that nobody will really use!" might
accomplish quite a bit when you have sensible teachers/profs...

Btw, we also want you to do something actually useful in a whole
year of coding! A good coder shouldn't waste an entire year on
research code... :(

succes,

Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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