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OSDL Denies Rewriting Kernel
yootje writes "Although there were rumours saying that OSDL writes a version of the Linux kernel that doesn't infringe patents (an argument that was used by Microsoft), OSDL denies this: 'OSDL officials have said that the report was not accurate, and that while Beaverton is putting $1.2m into economic development around open source software, this is not connected to rewriting the Linux kernel.'"
But given the current state of things, I'm pretty unsure that you can write any computer program of complexity beyond 'hello world' without infringing on at least one software patent.
Comment is too sensible for slashdot.
Indeed - code rot is a well known phenomenon.
If the kernel is not re-written soon, it will start slowing down and maybe break altogether!
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Is it fin rot? It's fin rot, isn't it? Tell me it's not fin rot!
OSDL, god praise it's name, wishes to send out noice that there is no re-writing of Linux kernel, nor has there ever been any attempt to re-write it. These are the truths! Even if there were attempts to re-write it, which ther are not, it would only be by word of our great master, IBM.
Only the infidels at Microsoft could create such lies, and surely would admit it if they were not such cowards, hiding in thier cubes like the unholy nerds that they are. God willing, capitalist proprietary software will fail under the great crush of thier devil-like closed-source policies. Indeed, I do not doubt this. Praise OSDL.
...if the Linux kernel could be rewritten to compile in Microsoft C? Could it then be interfaced under the Windows GUI to provide the best of both worlds? A rock solid kernel with a rock solid UI? Dump all that ugly Bash, sh, ksh, Bourne Shell, csh crap and put the much nicer CMD or COMMAND on top of it for CLI freaks. Maybe drop IE and replace it with the Linux program Firefox. The same with Outlook. Replace it with Linux Evolution. A lot of stuff from the Linux project (GIMP, Xine, Ogg Vorbis and Theora) could be added to this new frankenWindows. Since Macintosh is now Linux as well, you could probably get the code for some of the projects from the Darwin project. I think that iCal, iTunes and the new iWork projects are all part of the Darwin kernel. To be honest, I think you'd wind up with the most usable, stable and secure OS ever. But you know why it wil never happen? Because none of these businesses want to work together. Linus is only interested in his own company's profits. The same with Bill Gate and Steve Jobs. They won't work together because they are trying to smash each other so they can own the world.
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Unix already did this; everyone uses Plan 9 now.
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