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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."

9 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. I was going to comment .. by BilldaCat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but ..

    This comment has been submitted already, 276978 hours , 8 minutes ago. No need to try again.

    ohwell.

    and now this!

    Slow down cowboy!

    Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting reply on comments.pl and submitting a comment.

    It's been 14 seconds since you hit 'reply'!

    this is getting ridiculous.

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  2. 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?

  3. Ouch... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Way to close the italics tag, there... maybe the new version of Slashcode should have an appended to the bottom of every article? corky6921

  4. Embedded Linux devices... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!

  5. cranky trolls make baby Jesus cry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can't we all just get along?!!

  6. Close the tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please

  7. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck Magkca

  8. 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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