[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

Grant Taylor  <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>On 4/21/24 13:17, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Because Linus owns the trademark and controls what can be called 
>> Linux and what cannot be.  Linus decides what goes into the kernel, 
>> and therefore if he wants there to be one Linux kernal, there is. 
>> If he wanted there to be two, he could do that too.
>
>On one hand I agree.  But on the other hand I disagree.
>
>Given that the Linux kernel is released as source code, people can 
>reconfigure it as they want.  People can even add patches to it to add 
>additional functionality that's not in the upstream vanilla kernel 
>source.  OpenZFS and some binary BLOB drives from vendors being perfect 
>examples of such things not in the upstream vanilla kernel source.

That's true, but they can't just call it Linux.  I run Linux+RT-PREEMPT myself.
--scott

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