[Bloat] Taxonomy of various sender-side TCPs

[Jonathan Morton]

On 12 Mar, 2011, at 12:20 am, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> I bugged then at Linux Plumber's to submit it to get into the upstream
> kernel, but seems to be stuck in internal testing?

It appears that they want to get a patent on it.  Hence they do have to keep their cards quite close for the moment, if they don't want to compromise that process.

Of course I have opinions on software patents - happily they are not a massive problem in Finland - but merely being patented isn't a complete deal-breaker for an algorithm to go into Linux, provided it has an appropriately liberal licensing scheme (ie. GPL compatible).

 - Jonathan