Comment by marty-oehme

2 months ago

Very cool project! I do have to admit - looking far, far into the future - I am a bit scared of a Linux ABI-compatible kernel with an MIT license.

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juliangmp  2 months ago

I agree, I know a lot of people aren't huge fans of it but in the long run Linux being GPL2 was a huge factor in its success.

viraptor  2 months ago

Too late? https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

  • jorvi  2 months ago

    Somewhere there is a dark timeline where the BSDs won, there are 50 commercial and open source variants all with their own kernel and userland. The only promise of interoperability is in extremely ossified layers like POSIX. There is, however, something terrible gathering its strength. A colossus. The great Shade that will eat the net. In boardroom meetings across the land, CTOs whisper its name and tremble... "OS/2."

cryptonector  2 months ago

> I am a bit scared of a Linux ABI-compatible kernel with an MIT license.

What's the threat? Solaris/Illumos, the BSDs, even Windows, have all tried -sometimes more than once- to be compatible with the Linux ABI, and in the end they've all given up because the Linux ABI evolves way too fast to keep up and is underdocumented. Someday someone -perhaps TFA- will succeed in building momentum for a well-defined and highly functional least common denominator subset of the Linux ABI, and that will be a very good thing (IMO) regardless of their choice of license.

I guess you imagine that everyone will switch to Moss and oh-noes!-everyone-will-be-free-to-not-contribute-back!! So what?

stingraycharles  2 months ago

Why?

  • p0w3n3d  2 months ago

    because otherwise big tech companies will take it and modify and release hardware with it without releasing patches etc? Basically being selfish and greedy?

  • mnau  2 months ago

    Because unlike most other functionality, you generally need hw specs or cooperation to write drivers (see Nvidia GSP).

    Anyone can write Photoshop (provided reasonable resources). The problem is going to be proprietary file format and compatibility with the ecosystem. It's same with hardware, except several orders of magnitude worse.

tensor  2 months ago

FreeBSD already has Linux ABI compatibility and has for a long time.

I have to say the GPL trolling in this post is some of the worst I've ever seen on HN. Literally 99% of the comments GPL trolls coming in and thread shitting everywhere. It's genuinely disgusting.