From: Jeff Shultz 

There is nothing wrong with writing anything proprietary for Linux.
Interestingly, the first UltraSparc I played with was a Fujitsu. I think.
It wasn't a Sun box.

Geo. wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/29007.html
>
> [...]
>
> Building big iron is relatively easy for Fujitsu, and Intel knows how to
> make chips to plug into servers. A lot of the effort these two will be
> putting into the future machines is making Linux scale. SGI, which
> announced a 64-way Linux supercomputer a few weeks ago, put a lot of work
> into extending Linux and making it work efficiently on its shared memory,
> parallel machines. While Red Hat Linux will run out of the box on the
> 64-way SGI Altix 3000 machines, if you want it to run really well, you
> have to buy all the rejiggered Linux code that SGI has created and which
> is not being put back into the open source community by SGI. It is hard
> to believe that Fujitsu and Intel, having done work that differentiates
> the Fujitsu and Siemens platforms running Linux, are going to put that
> work back into the Linux community. Dracott says that while no decisions
> about IP have been made, a model that is similar to SGI's way of doing
> things is likely. Moreover, it is hard to imagine that IBM, HP, or Dell,
> if it ever delivers a 32-way or larger server, will behave much
> differently.
>
> [...]

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Jeff Shultz
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