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Circumvention Advice: Adding real-time support to general purpose operating systemsReal-time solutions taking advantage of the Linux kernel are under the influence of a software patent (5,995,745 US Patent). A group of real-time experts released a program that claims to use a different principle: ADEOS, published June 3, 2002.The ADEOS press release explains that "often a piece of free software, into which many people have invested years of work, can be turned into non-free software by a patent for one simple but essential calculation rule. Our example shows that the developers need not always give up. Sometimes, by trying very hard, an alternative calculation rule that does the work and is not completely useless can be found. Developers should not shy the efforts that this takes, because even if the patent owner offers a license on friendly terms, usually the project will be restricted in some way or other and the intentions of the developers to create real free software will be betrayed." About EuroLinux - www.EuroLinux.orgThe EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture based on Open Standards, Open Competition, Linux and Open Source Software. Companies, members or supporters of EuroLinux develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses for operating systems such as Linux, MacOS or Windows. The EuroLinux Alliance launched on 2000-06-15 an electronic petition to protect software innovation in Europe. The EuroLinux petition has received so far massive support from more than 100.000 European citizens, 2000 corporate managers and 300 companies. Press Contacts France & Europe: Jean-Paul Smets jp@smets.com
+33-6 62 05 76 14 Permanent URL for this PR http://petition.EuroLinux.org/pr/pr20.html LegaleseLinux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. |