Re: [Xen-devel] xen, OpenMosix + pretty gui = virtual iron killer

[Moshe Bar <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

openMosix and Xen have obviously been around before they even formed as 
a company (which doesn't exclude they acquired prior intellectual 
property). On the other hand, you can get a patent on pretty much 
anything today, provided you carefully reword things.
The market is much better at sorting out why it should pay for 
something that it can get for free somewhere else.
"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony" (Morpheus in The 
Matrix)

Moshe


On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:13 AM, Brian Wolfe wrote:

> *chuckle* this is what I've been looking into for over a year now. If
> they try to patent it, I'd think it'll fail the "non-obvious"
> clause. ;-P
>
> For being founded in March 2003 it seems a rather rapid development to
> have been completely proprietary. I'd LOVE to find out if they are
> leaching off of OpenMOSIX+XEN in some way.
>
> I did notice that they joined OSDL
> http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/31320/ as a part of the Data 
> Center
> Linux working group.
>
> Maybe they patented the idea of xen+mosix. who knows. anyone?
>
> Brian Wolfe
> TerraBox.com Inc.
>
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 01:05 +0000, Jerry Normandin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I was at Linux World today and stopped by the Virtual Iron booth.  
> > Could this
> > be a copy of xen technology?   Virtual Iron appears to be a 
> > combination of xen
> > and open mosix technology.  Has anyone tried running xen on an Open 
> > Mosix
> > cluster?  With the new Infiniband hardware out I bet we could build 
> > an effecient
> > cluster.  I can test with low end hardware for now, I don't have the 
> > $$$ to buy
> > two dell poweredge 6600 series servers and some Infiniband equipment. 
> >  But I can
> > build a 2 node AMD cluster with a gigibit interconnect for test.
> >
> >
> >   I kind of confronted the sales engineer at LinuxWorld and asked, 
> > "hey does
> > this products' roots from Xen and OpenMosix?" The attendant got 
> > pretty angry and
> > said "If Xen used Open Mosix to come up with a competing soultion 
> > they would
> > sue!"  What a jerk! This  company has no clue what open source is 
> > about!
> > I say, as a community, lets do it!  If we can get true virtualization 
> > on the
> > hardware so we can be OS agnostic that would be even better.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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