From: "Jordi Ros" <jros@ece.uci.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:03:32 -0700 The nice thing is that open source allows for people to scratch their heads to come up with better solutions. In fact, i have worked with the Linux kernel and i myself You keep talking about open source this and that, but fail to deal with the issue I brought up which is that all these TOE people will be using proprietary firmware. This is a FACT. Therefore, the situation isn't quite so utopian like you describe it. TOE, how companies want to do it now, is incompatible wholly with open source. And since you won't listen to me, I don't understand how you expect me to do the same for you. Yes I realize the bandwidth savings that could be had if we terminated TCP connections mid-way across the net, but you are talking about specialized systems sitting on optics, ie. routers and gateways. There is this huge company that specializes in this area, doing funny hw optimizations on routers, why not leave it to them until the firmware is open and the hardware is commoditized? :-) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
