[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 2:03:27 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> In the Android world that is generally manged by putting everything 
> kernel under GPL and only license userland stuff different (Apache 
> or proprietary). 

And VMS can do the same thing. All the compatibility stuff can live in userland.

> GPL is GPL. A driver either get under GPL or they have to do the 
> shim trick to decouple the core driver from kernel. 

As I mentioned, Linux already has drivers for all the usual enterprise-class hardware, that you can take advantage of, so you don’t need to (re)write those.