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Lineo Pays To License Real-Time Linux Capability

Posted by timothy on from the now-how-much-would-you-pay?- dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Embedded linux vendor Lineo has apparently caved in to Victor Yodaiken, and become the first software company to publicly announce the licensing of Yodaiken's patented process for running a general purpose operating system (such as Linux) as a task under a real-time kernel(such as RTLinux or RTAI)."

There's a special report at LinuxDevices which includes . . .

  • text of the Lineo press release
  • comments from Victor Yodaiken
  • news of a non-patented open source alternative ("Adeos")
  • a reference list about RTLinux and the RTLinux patent
  • a whitepaper about Adeos
There's an interesting quote where Yodaiken claims his patent will help open source."

3 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. Italics tag by BastardOpFromHell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You forgot to close your italics tag. A should do nicely.

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    1. Re:Italics tag by caryw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      He should've used the preview button!

      Or do they not have one of those?

  2. Looks closed to me by Skapare · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It looks closed to me. I did "view source" and verified it was there.

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