On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:46:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Leimy wrote:
>
> > Mach based BSD? I thought it was a microkernel.... I wasn't sure though.
> > What does this mean for the HURD?
>
> As far as Hurd is concerned, I don't know .... I remember once reading a
> paper somewhere that Hurd was built on top of a Mach 4.0 derived source,
> and this was because the older 3.0 source had short comings which would
> have made it difficult to work with (someone please correct me if I am
> wrong).
Our time would probably be better spent porting to a higher-performance
microkernel.
>
> But somewhere I remember GNU having a big problem with Apple (hmm, was it
> the old MS vs. Apple look-n-feel thing) and don't know if they have
> forgiven them yet ;)
>
One problem is the "revocable" nature of the license. It contains some provisions,
such as "if you sue us for patent infringement we have the right to instantly revoke
your rights to the Darwin source", etc.
-Brent
