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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?




Hi
Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
> 
> Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 
> bla bla ...

yada yada yada... ;-))

> 
> > But I agree on all other points. This is the 7th port of MOSIX to a unix
> > like system. They can always do another port, or go back to BSD. But my
> > guess is they switched to Linux for a reason... Maybe they will be
> > powerfull enough to convince the power that be that holding back on
> > technology never works.
> 
>    This is a sort of an interesting well founded view. I just wonder which
> history you've been reading which I haven't read. The one about of how naval
> wars were won in the last few centuries. Or was it the one of how the Germans
> & the Americans seemed to race neck to neck to develop the first nuclear bomb
> (despite the fact it turned out the Germans were far behind). I'm sure the worl d

Ah Ha! my dear friend, you have forgotten one simple thing. 
We are no longer living in those times. The Internet has changed the
face of this world:

Let's say 10 years ago (even 7 or 5 actually) someone heard about MOSIX.
"Now that's
a cool idea", he might have said, "I want one!". Alas, building
something like MOSIX
is not an easy task. It took the HUJI group 20 years! (if I remember the
number correctly).

Now let's look at it today: an open letter from Alan / Linux / Miguel /
RMS / 
<name your favorite semi-diety> on Slashdot that invites people to join
the new GNUMOSIX team.

They already have Beuwolf, they already have the kernel debugger Huji
MOSIX team was so kind to
release and they just might be backed up secretly by a lot of other
bodies wishing to put their
hands on a MOSIX like cluster. They already know it CAN be done, and
have a pretty good idea on
where to go (even if you needto invent bypasses for patented work, which
I don't know if MOSIX is).

So it's Cathedral against Bazaar time again in the high noon of
information technology. 
Care to guess who will win? you know as well as I do that in (Top!) five
years we will all go "insmod
gnumosix" the minute we connect our laptops to the network where we work
to enjoy the computing power
of a zillion secretaries using i386's to play solitaire... ;-)

Linux, is not just an OS. It's a lesson. A small peek into the future.
When network and hierarchy do
battle, in an environment that is ever changing, "noisy" and quick to
pass information, The network will
win.  And we live in such an environment.

Or lets not get far and look at MOSIX itself: a cluster of lesser
computers, cooperating without a central "head", is more powerful then
one "BIG" super computer. Coincidense? I don't think so...

Gilad.

PS. Plus, O. Laadan has only two more years in the army or so. Maybe we
can convince him to join... ;-)






> would have looked different if the Americans had just turned over their nuclear
> secrets right after WWII. How many years did it take this technology to
> propagate? By the looks of the world it hasn't really reached that far. Perhaps
> the U.S. should hand over the technology for radar evasion to the Iraqis or
> Iranians. I'm sure such a bomber would be a great comfort to all of us.
>    These all encompassing statements usually sound good on paper, but are rather
> silly in reality (I wouldn't even call them naive). I sleep more quietly with
> some technologies held back. I don't know why MOSIX is not released but I have
> enough good sense to let well enough alone.
> 
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