Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 19 15:55:18 UTC 2008
> > ZFS was included in FreeBSD 7.0 because the BSD
> license is more free than the GPL with that regard.
>
> And if NetApp win against Sun they can sue FreeBSD now, for
> triple
> damages which would be millions and the end of FreeBSD.
That is a big IF, maybe it should be an iff (IF and ONLY IF) like in Mathematics. :)
They(FreeBSD) should be protected, the users can get the ports from source, they do not ship binaries(except the installation *.tbz files).
Now, what is the probability that NetApp would win? Is it a sure event? or uncertain event? We should have no idea on this? Which court system? Is it in a U.S. based court?
In many ways when Fedora was created there were troubles, there was an existing Fedora Project already, and the thing got settled :)
http://www.fedora-commons.org/about/history.php
Regards,
Antonio
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