“The Open Source community is rarely one of huge technical
leaps. Much of the work that comes out of open-source software
projects is incrementatal, freely building on the work that others
have done in the past–a lesson that could easily be re-learned
this week…“This lesson also applied to another big announcement this week:
the release of SGI’s supercomputer Altix 3000 line. Though,
unfortunately, the lesson was not as clear.“A major slant to the announcement was the fact that that the
so-called eight-processor limit for Linux had been passed. But what
various media outlets, including LinuxPlanet, forgot to mention was
that this limit had already been passed by another company last
Fall, thanks in large part to work performed in the Open Source
community…”
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