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发信人: vertex (lancelord), 信区: Linux
标  题: Linux Virtual Server & Turbo Linux Cluster
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Oct 29 09:09:41 1999)

下面是 LVS 的作者 zhang wensong 对 TL 公司的TL cluster的一些看法.
可以看出 TL 公司在这件事情上确实没有显示出是一个完全按照 GPL的方法
来办事的公司.

自由软件可以作商物..但也要遵守 Free World 的原则.

Well, back to the TurboLinux Cluster topic. I really dislike the tricks
the they played in their TurboCluster product. They first demostrated
the TurboCluster web server in LinuxWorld in San Francisco in March and
announces that it was their own first clustering technology, without
mentioning a word that TurboCluster is based on LVS. Although Cliff
Miller, CEO of PHT, apologized once, they still did the same thing in
the later demo and news press. After a few discussions were raised on
the Linux-HA mailing list in this May, they added an Acknowledgement
in their TurboCluster web page. Something on the page is probably not
true,
        "The first few beta versions of TCS were actually based
        on the Linux Virtual Server Project code. Although we
        have since completely rewritten our product, we are proud
        to acknowledge the efforts that inspired our own project. "
That statements has last for 5 months, however Mike <wanger@redhat.com>
told me that they used the exact patch from LVS project at the end of
this September. I haven't looked at their patch myself, because I have
failed to download the patch from their site over ten times. The reason
that I didn't stand up against their act after May is that I am not
good at arguing and I would rather spend more time coding and some
work that interest me. Anyway, I will download their patch this time,
and check what exactly they have done.

I agree to what Stephen said. I don't think TurboLinux have technical
accumulation to provide a "forked" Linux. Look at their community site
(http://community.turbolinux.com/), the TurboCluster is the only
R&D product that they offer to the community, however it is not in GPL
and they played the trick on the LVS. I see TurboLinux wants to be
great in the Linux community, it's good, but they don't do it in the
right way. The trick they played will finally destroy their own
reputation. They should spend more time doing some really good works.
In fact, we are not sympathized, but they are.

Wensong

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