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I'd argue that the floppy driver is > > > probably > > > used by orders of magnitude more people than the packet writing > > > code, > > > and as such that makes it much more important to maintain. > > > > I'm not into time-reversal, if that is what you mean?! I love > > unilinear time and causal computers! > > > > Regards, > > Mischa. > > > > Hello Mischa > Something is not making sense here. > If this will not be an open source project and not released then why > not simply snapshot the kernel as is now and go ahead. > Maintain it yourself, issue solved. No need to harp on the packet > writing code support anymore. > You are mistaking my project for a kernel module. I do not intend to do a spinoff. Perhaps, if it were a kernel module, but it isn't. > Many companies have taken a snap of the kernel to use for storage > arrays and then made changes and did not release the entire solution as > open source. > > You said > > "Yes, I've written the the code myself, thank you. It's prototype > hardware and it's not intended as an open source software project. It > is therefore not going to > be released to the general public. When it's finished, and it isn't at > the moment, it's hopefully going to be part of your future processors. > " > > Regards > Laurence Oberman >