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Submission + - OpenBSD: Linux's "Free Driver Offer" is a

Submitted by microbee on Thursday February 15, 2007 @04:43PM

microbee writes: KernelTrap reports that Greg Kroah-Hartman's offer for free GPL drivers has caused criticisms from OpenBSD developers, including founder Theo de Raadt who calls it a farce. Their reason is that this move will make companies even more reluctant to provide open specs and will hurt free software in the long run. Greg is not convinced, but given his track record of being wrong once, maybe the OpenBSD folks have a point?

Journal Journal: IBM tests prototype system by blasting it with proton beam

Journal by Scott7477 on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:38PM

In an article at news.com titled IBM's Power6: Bigger iron, lower power, the author notes at the end of the article that "To simulate adverse conditions, IBM runs Power6 systems at the wrong end of a proton beam. The testing showed that a system is able to recover from about 3,400 random software errors before one slips through and causes undetected data corruption..."

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