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My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc. They are nontechnical. I need one of you guys to explain that a ring-0-only identity-mapped kernel is absolutely not at all derived from linux. And that a compiler which does not have an abstract symbol tree intermediate format but stack-machine-pseudocode is nothing like any compiler ever. My compiler is 22,000 lines of code. Don't you think gcc would love to be like that?

Hi,

SparrowOS wrote:My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc. They are nontechnical. I need one of you guys to explain that a ring-0-only identity-mapped kernel is absolutely not at all derived from linux. And that a compiler which does not have an abtsract symbol tree intermediate format but stack-machine-pseudocode is nothing like any compiler ever. My compiler is 22,000 linews of code. Don't you think gcc would love to be like that?

Surely you can show these people the source code for your OS and your compiler, and the source code for Linux and GCC, and let them compare.


Cheers,

Brendan

Brendan wrote:Hi,

SparrowOS wrote:My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc. They are nontechnical. I need one of you guys to explain that a ring-0-only identity-mapped kernel is absolutely not at all derived from linux. And that a compiler which does not have an abtsract symbol tree intermediate format but stack-machine-pseudocode is nothing like any compiler ever. My compiler is 22,000 linews of code. Don't you think gcc would love to be like that?

Surely you can show these people the source code for your OS and your compiler, and the source code for Linux and GCC, and let them compare.


Cheers,

Brendan

People all live in their own reality and none of us can change other people's delusions.

SparrowOS wrote:My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc.

Does it matter what they think? If you've tried to explain it to them and they don't get it, they probably aren't bright enough to get it. What are you going to gain if you do manage to get the point across to them though? Will it improve your life in some way? A genius should be happy to be free to work away in isolation without anyone suspecting what he's building, then when the work is done,he can leap out from the darkness and slap everyone across the face with a wet fish (metaphorically speaking).

Hope that helps.

DavidCooper wrote:

SparrowOS wrote:My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc.

Does it matter what they think? If you've tried to explain it to them and they don't get it, they probably aren't bright enough to get it. What are you going to gain if you do manage to get the point across to them though? Will it improve your life in some way? A genius should be happy to be free to work away in isolation without anyone suspecting what he's building, then when the work is done,he can leap out from the darkness and slap everyone across the face with a wet fish (metaphorically speaking).

Hope that helps.

Perhaps, the less appreciated an artist in their life, the longer the legacy. I don't care when I'm dead.

In life you need food, clothing and entertainment. Money is just to buy those.

Perhaps pleasures and pains somewhat balance.

Work is unpleasant and gets rewarded.

meh.


Just remember everyone over 60 is like a soldier encountering death all the time.

SparrowOS wrote:My former boss and or my mental health doctor spy on me and are convinced my kernel is from linux or my compiler is from gcc.

Why in the flying frack would your psychiatrist care about your copyright issues?

This really is not the right forum for this. If you are actually having this problem it is not something we can solve -- however, if this is not an actual problem you are having, we are not a forum of psychiatrists and we are not here to entertain your notions and ideas about how the world is out to get you and we are all dying and everything is dark and gloomy and the people in the eastern hemisphere are arrogant because they haven't met white people (which is just downright rude to state and even as a white person I am offended) and so forth.

From what I've seen you've already been ejected from this community once by the moderation staff. I do believe in your case it would be wise to make it easier on them and leave under your own power.

If you are having copyright issues for real with your employer then you have the tools available at your workstation(s): A copy of the Linux kernel source, a copy of your kernel's source, a terminal or three, and diff. Compile a list of differences and compare it to the lines of code in the Linux kernel. IANAL, of course.

Just answer a simple question -- is every kernel derived from Linux because it's impossible for one person to do a kernel? Let's say you spend 5 years on it. Second question, which you cannot answer is "Does the same apply to gcc?" It's the same question. Another 5 years. I have worked 9 years.

SparrowOS wrote:Just answer a simple question -- is every kernel derived from Linux because it's impossible for one person to do a kernel?

No.
(6:34:10 PM) <GhostlyDeath> If it was impossible for one person to write a kernel
(6:34:16 PM) <GhostlyDeath> There'd be no Linux

SparrowOS wrote:Second question, which you cannot answer is "Does the same apply to gcc?"

Is every compiler derived from gcc? *checks the Open Watcom source code* Nope. I fail to see what I could not answer.

Blacklight wrote:

SparrowOS wrote:Just answer a simple question -- is every kernel derived from Linux because it's impossible for one person to do a kernel?

No.
(6:34:10 PM) <GhostlyDeath> If it was impossible for one person to write a kernel
(6:34:16 PM) <GhostlyDeath> There'd be no Linux

SparrowOS wrote:Second question, which you cannot answer is "Does the same apply to gcc?"

Is every compiler derived from gcc? *checks the Open Watcom source code* Nope. I fail to see what I could not answer.

Everybody here has written a kernel by themselves.

Sadly, no one seems to do compilers at this site, though they fall in the category of operating systems.

James has worked on a compiler.

He made a kernel... surely he would say one person could do a compiler.

SparrowOS wrote:Everybody here has written a kernel by themselves.

Not /everybody/ but a lot of us, yeah.

SparrowOS wrote:Sadly, no one seems to do compilers at this site, though they fall in the category of operating systems.

I, uh, tend to disagree... compilers are not in the same category as operating systems... One must come before another, and a compiler is a tool run on an operating system, even though it can be used to build other operating systems. But I digress.

Perhaps then this isn't the site you're looking for after all.

GNU people would complain it is the GNU/Linux operating system because it does not have a compiler.

A commodore 64 ROM is an operating system. It was 20 K. It had a BASIC interpretor. One person can easily write 20,000 LOC. Happens all the time.

In anycase I wrote all 136,000 LOC by myself from scratch and it includes a compiler.