The Morning Paper (by Adrian Colyer) does a great summary of the paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-di...
LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System
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#22Supports Infiniband out of the box - neat!
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#23So, actually reading the paper. What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines. I like the i…
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#24Alternate names: BlocksOS, DistrOS, DistribOS,BuildOS I'd suggest cloning the repo locally, as when this gets TOS'd for obvious trademark issue, Github's deletion won't hit your local machine (but will also nuke forks on GH). Cool project, poor choice in name.
legOS could potentially pass.
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#25So, actually reading the paper. What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines. I like the i…
Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.
Re: LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System
#26Imagine if they get a C&D from Lego, and they rename it to BrickOS[1].
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#27So nothing related to the actual legOS for Lego Mindstorms.
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#28Wouldn't this be a copyright infringement?
Trademark infringement. They could argue it is a different category than the toy company, but I think that line of argument is already lost given they are using LEGO style bricks on the website.
Its funny when you think about whats fair in this kind of stuff.
For example if you use AppleSomething, apple is a fruit, was a famous record label before being a famous computing brand.
As theres a fruit before anything else, you can argue why you could have some rights over the brand. If is AppleOS of course you can have trouble because Apple the IT company have a OS and they might argue this is a common way people refer to iOS or MacOS.
But Lego is a whole different category. There is no well known concept of Lego before Lego was created, and theres a sort of mechanics and way of thinking that is totally associated with the idea of Lego because of the Lego toy.
So if you use Lego in that sense even if its for something else, they might reclaim the concepts name, because they actually invented not just a toy, but a toy with a concept of composability for which people might be inclined to reuse the name, not because of the toy, but the larger concept the toy represents.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they broke just about every single one of LEGO®'s rules in the trademark section.
When I first read LegoOS, I thought it was an OS made by Lego. I wouldn't be unreasonable considering that they have a software platform with the Mindstorm line. The fact that confusion is possible goes against the spirit of the trademark law.
Yeah that was honestly what I thought too. Definitely wouldn't be that far fetched for them to do. Or at least something officially endorsed by them.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they broke just about every single one of LEGO®'s rules in the trademark section.
When I first read LegoOS, I thought it was an OS made by Lego. I wouldn't be unreasonable considering that they have a software platform with the Mindstorm line. The fact that confusion is possible goes against the spirit of the trademark law.
Me too. I thought this was going to be about the Lego Mindstorm Robot OS going open source.