Subject: Re: Adrian must be happy...
From: Matthew Temple (Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 10:15:21 EDT
Well I'll be,
All this time I'd been using and tinkering with netatalk, I'd
never really taken in the license. My apologies and a big DOH! to this
group.
mht
wesley.craig@umich.edu wrote:
>
> > From: "Temple, Matthew H." <Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu>
>
> > Though I'm sure Sun would be very happy with this claim,
> > others such as Celera Genomics seem to think that TruUnix scales
> > pretty well. (Good enough to process the entire first pass of
> > the Human Genome project.) Let's not turn this group into a Sun
> > propaganda mill. After all, Netatalk is one of the mainstays
> > of the GPL world and it's certainly true that if Sun REALLY
> > ruled the world, this free and excellent program would never
> > have been born in its current form. Also, Linux is still just
> > a baby, so we'll see how things scale as it grows up. :-)
>
> Um, I'm hardly chewing out Sun propoganda. While I *did* do the
> Solaris port of netatalk (with help from Sun, BTW), I *also* worked
> pretty hard on the Linux, FreeBSD, and, um, let's see, oh right, every
> OS that it runs on.
>
> Also, I think it's misleading to claim that netatalk is a mainstay for
> the GPL world, since it is not covered by the GPL.
>
> netatalk was first written for AOS, a port of BSD 4.3 for the IBM RT,
> predecessor of both AIX and RIOS. Then it was ported to a vax running
> BSD Tahoe, the version between 4.3 and 4.4. After that, SunOS 4. I'd
> have to look at the archives after that, since we added several OS's
> all around the same time.
>
> I agree, tho, with your last point. Maybe someday the Linux kernel
> team will care about scaling.
>
> :wes
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