[157835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Sun Nov 11 05:34:17 2012
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:33:57 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20121111094536.GA30915@pob.ytti.fi>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Saku Ytti (saku) writes:
>
> I've sometimes wondered why Linux is so common, and not FreeBSD.
Historical reasons and good timing.
> Is it easier to hire people if you use Linux?
As opposed to... ?
> Or is GPL not really problematic issue,
> as you can hide your intellectual property in binary kernel modules?
You can't. The GPL has provisions for that. Common mistake, several
lawsuits have shown.
As Randy pointed out, Juniper is FreeBSD inside, and NetApp uses
it as well (+ number of other vendors that don't advertise it because
they don't have to).
Phil
