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Dear Peter,
It's good to see your message.
In fact, the announcement of TurboLinux Cluster really made me feel a
little bit unhappy. I read the GNU Public License again and they did break
the license. Cliff Miller's apologies was sincere enough, but their
intended webpage posting is less satisfactory. Anyway, it is all passed,
let it be.
I do treasure the cooperation in the Linux Virtual Server project. I hope
everyone in the project can write free software with joy and work happily
together. I don't care about how much money I can get from it. If PHT
follows the GPL and they make a lot of money on it, I will feel happy
because they make the Linux Virtual Server popular. If they want to give
some feedback (devices or money) in order to support the development of
Linux Virtual Server project, I would be much happier. :-)
It's good to hear that you are a full time graduate student. I am a full
time graduate student too. I will keep working on the Linux Virtual
Project. By the way, I have already integrate Alan's heartbeat code into
the Linux Virtual Server, the primary and the backup of LinuxDirector
heart-beats each other periodically, the backup will take over the Virtual
IP address if it cannot hear the heartbeat message "I am alive" in two
seconds. I don't know how the TurboLinux daemon works. I think Alan's
heartbeat code is great. I will put the instructions to configure the
heartbeat code to work for Linux Virtual Servers on the web page soon.
By the way, I will try to get devices to contruct the virtual server
testbed, in which I can test the performance of Linux Virtual Server easily.
Cheers,
Wensong
At 19:38 99-3-16 +0100, Peter Ke{e wrote:
>
>Dear Wensong!
>
>I have been offline for a few weeks and have not been able to post
>anything to your mailing list. The reason for that was the fact that
>I have been moving to another flat and that took me quite a lot of
>energy so I didn't found any time to even connect my computer
>to the power lines, much less the internet..
>
>In the mean time, you have obviously found out about my relation to
>Pacific Hightech. I think I should have told you we are preparing
>a commercial release of your software, but I didn't know how the
>PHT is going to announce it, nor do I know anyone there to ask them.
>Anyway, when I found out about it, I have written a short mail to
>explain who I am and what was going on. I never got the chance to
>post it. Today I found out that Cliff Miller had contacted you in
>the meanwhile and that makes my email somewhat outdated.
>Nevertheless I am sending it to you to read. The mail was supposed
>to be public (for the whole VS mailing list) but right now I am
>not so sure if I shouldn't just stay quiet. I should have told it
>weeks ago anyway.
>
>I hope you don't mind about the whole thing. I have asked PHT to
>send you some money or offer you a job too, but I am not sure whether
>they offered you anything or not (I guess they did).
>
>For me the most important thing is that we get some more good free
>software for Linux and to write it with joy. Well isn't that what
>life is about anyway?
>
>Thanks,
> Peter
>
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>this is my mail of last week...
>
>
>Hi!
>
>Last week Pacific Hightech (PHT) announced Turbo Cluster product based
>on your Virtual Server patch and that lift up some dust and unanswered
>questions about licensing and other legal stuff concerned with their
>commercial release.
>
>To begin with, I have to reveal the fact that I get payed by PHT to work
>on the kernel part of Turbo Cluster (actually Virtual Server). Besides
>the Virtual Server patched kernel, Turbo Cluster also includes some
>deamons that take care of co nfiguration and failure detection.
>
>At the moment we made no changes to the Virtual Server patch. In the
>distribution prepared for the Linux Expo, there was a special kernel
>2.0.36 RPM with the original VS 0.7 patch. I am planning some changes
>to the kernel/VS patch in the future. Of course anything I do on the
>kernel will be public. I would personaly like to keep the best
>relationship with Wensong and other developers of the Virtual Server.
>I would also like to do everything I can in order NOT to split the
>development of the Virtual Server into two branches.
>
>For the other part of the Turbo Cluster project (the HA, scalability,
>configuration deamons) I do not know what the licensing will be but I
>think the sources will be publicly accessible one way or another.
>Unfortunately I can not make any promises as well as I can't explain
>PHT's intentions, I only told you what I know. Besides I live in
>Europe, whereas PHT is based in the US and I have never personaly met
>anyone from PHT.
>
>I would like to continue my work on the project and post some more
>contributions to the Virtual Server project. Since I am a full time
>graduate student, I also don't mind receiving some bonus money from
>PHT for things I like doing.
>
>I sincirely think we should all profit by having more people working
>on the Virtual Server project. The whole Linux community should profit
>too. I don't think there is a problem with PHT selling the software.
>We all know PHT, Redhat, Caldera and others help populating Linux in
>those environments which prefer paying money for the software and want
>commercial support. On the other hand those familiar with the
>'patch -p0' and 'make bzImage' can still download the software from the
>net and build it themselves. For free.
>
>In the past few months I have been active in the Virtual Server mailing
>list and have sent some comments and suggestions which resulted in
>minor improvements of the Virtual Server. We are also building an
>environment where we will be able to perform extensive testing of
>the Virtual Server throughput, limits and functionality.
>
>
>Cheers,
> Peter
>
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