In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees of the development of Firefox. I.B.M. has been a major backer
multicore and multiprocessor performance
Here’s two interesting tables Percentage of lock acquisitions for global TCP/IP locks that do not succeed immediately. OS Type 6 conns 192 conns 16384 conns MsgP 89 100 100 ConnP-L(4) 60 56 52 ConnP-L(8) 51 30 26 ConnP-L(16) 49 18
The ridiculous GPL-only tagging of Linux
Imagine that you release software under a license that is primarily concerned with making sure that modifiable source code is available to all and that no restrictions should ever be placed on derived works. Now imagine that someone takes a
10th anniversary of the RTLinux Manifesto paper
The RTLinux* Manifesto was published a little over 10 years ago at the 5th Linux Expo in Raleigh North Carolina which was really the first one with a bunch of suits wandering around. As a kind of celebration/experiment , I’m
Recursive transducers and products – pre-submit version
Recursive transducers.
Software Design and time synchronization
I have a blog post up at fsmlabs.com about our TimeKeeper software for time synchronization. TimeKeeper is currently aimed at financial trading markets, but we also hope to market it to electric power distribution and transmission engineers who have a
More petty
The ALMA team has released ACS 8.0 on Red Hat 4.4, downgrading the Linux version from the foreseen 5.2 version. This choice, with the consequent back-porting of the code to the older OS version, had to be taken because of
Montavista thoughts
Bill “Linux Pundit” Weinberg explains: Business Model and Execution: Many MontaVista watchers have argued that the company’s business model was essentially flawed. […] Such a model based on building with and for open source can devolve into less attractive high-overhead
Montavista f-f-fades away
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – 11/10/09) – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM – News), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, wireless, storage and video applications, today announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement
Parallelism and multicore
The goal of modern processor chip design has changed from optimizing various speed/price/heat tradeoffs for applications to finding excuses for dumping more transistors into the device. Heard an interesting talk from Krisztián Flautner of ARM at the ACISC conference and