From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,216b18d81cce4f75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 06:51:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com><_M3S6.8957$HL5.1284411@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com><8DKS6.27593$%_1.4657414@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com><0daV6.9332$6d5.1953313@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3B34AE89.FFBE39EF@ebox.tninet.se> <9heq45$j9f$1@wanadoo.fr> <3B3B6F8F.EAA0F196@online.no> <3B4799AD.98849145@ebox.tninet.se> Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel? Message-ID: <_Fi27.12559$Kf3.129981@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:51:54 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:51:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9673 Date: 2001-07-09T13:51:54+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B4799AD.98849145@ebox.tninet.se>, Stefan Skoglund says... > >Ted Dennison wrote: >> I did notice that the HURD folks blamed most of their delays (and thus the >> rise of Linux) on MACH. > >It was a question of intellectual property rights. >The GNU project had in fact started its own kernel-development >effort and had made maybe 10% of the effort when >CMU released Mach with a GPL compatible license. That was indeed a large part of it. But there was also the issue that debugging Mach servers ended up being a real pain. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com