Posts by Jim Cownie 1

Patent speed

"Why go to the bother of patenting a design if you then donate it to the community, we wonder."

If the patent was *granted* late last year, then it will have been submitted three or four years ago, at which point the idea of Open Compute was still a glimmer in Facebook's eye. So there's nothing very odd here.

GaAs

Hmm, "Gallium Arsenide: technology of the future, always has been, always will be".

I first heard this put-down in ~ 1982. What's new now?

Intel Linux Contributions

@skelband, please check out http://lwn.net/Articles/496193/

The largest contributor to the 3.4 kernel was ... Intel.

-- Jim

(FWIW I work for intel)

Freudian typo?

"the impeding Solaris 11"? Is that what you mean, or, is it perhaps a Freudian typo for "the impending Solaris 11".

(Reminds me of the introduction to a VMS manual that read "Between you and the Vax is VMS" :-) )

-- Jim