[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5:48:48 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Going to the effort of swapping a ~forty year old monolithic kernel for 
> a ~thirty year old monolithic kernel while preparing for next-decade 
> system hardware architecture designs seems... unwise. 

The difference being that forty-year-old kernel was starting to look ancient at just ten years after its birth, while the thirty-year-old one was built on principles that had already been shown to stand the test of time back then, and even more so now.

Wasn’t somebody mentioning NetBSD at one point? Remember, the BSDs are almost as old as VMS.

> Unwise given the IP lawyers necessarily get involved with discussions 
> re-using a GPL kernel and/or re-using drivers for a closed-source 
> product and particularly where the vendor reportedly has no rights to 
> release much of the closed source.

Android seems to manage that OK. And not just for Google, but for all the makers of Android-based hardware and software.