Re: Java problem
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 00:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> This more or less replicates Les' contentiousness towards GNU and GPL
>> license stuff because he is desperately interested in running
>> proprietary software without hassle and blames kernel developers, GPL
>> license and Red Hat / Fedora packages for the problems which come from
>> vendors who want to only provide binary software.
> That's a tiny subset of the real problem of the GPL. Consider that it
> also prevents you from having zfs in the Linux kernel, zfs being neither
> proprietary nor distributed only in binary. And that's just the obvious
> thing you might know about and want today. The number of possible
> combinations of things it prevents from being distributed are actually
> astronomical.
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I certainly hope so Ollie
you can run ZFS AND not have to deal with messy GPL kernel...it's called
Open Solaris
Which can't use device drivers that have GPL restrictions - the viral
nature of the GPL has hijacked much of the work that would otherwise be
available for any use.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell(a)gmail.com