Wow! That's awesome. Real time scheduling in particular is something that will be imperative to future systems everywhere!

yeah, and anyone can license the right to implement it.

I am sure your work is awesome. I still maintain software patents are, in principle, a horrible idea, and no software developer (who relies on the work of countless others all the time) should support them.

Why?

It’s next to impossible to describe a software patent that is truly original without legal tricks that make sure it doesn’t obviously ignore prior art; because it doesn’t help innovation, but stifles it; because it feeds patent trolls; because it’s of no practical use.

I agree with what you're saying about patents, yet I'm proud to have contributed to patents for Red Hat as a)they do actively fight the patent system, e.g. sponsoring no-patent lobby in EU b)they are bound by the Patent Promise redhat.com/en/about/patent-p…

a) sounds good, b) only extends to FOSS, if I understand correctly, which I find sad, otherwise I’d like that too

Ah, maybe that's unclear as that article doesn't point it out, but we have other mandates in place to exclusively release new software as OSS; there's only exceptions allowed for when proprietary software joins via acquisitions but then only briefly while its converted to oss.

So in practice we only do OSS, in fact I had forgotten I should've pointed it out 😅