Comment by supercanuck
6 years ago
>This is done strictly for political reasons and has no known legal basis as far as I'm aware.
let me stop you right there. This being "Oracle," and its litigious nature, how can you truly be aware or sure?
Linus is literally saying there is a legal basis.
> This being "Oracle," and its litigious nature, how can you truly be aware or sure?
The functionality I'm describing has absolutely nothing to do with ZFS or Oracle in any way. If you really think the reach of Oracle is so great, then why not block all Oracle code from ever running on the OS? That seems to me to be just as justified as this change.
> why not block all Oracle code from ever running on the OS?
...to be fair, I would probably run that module.
I think that it would be a mandated module by many companies.
Oracle sued Google for copying the same names of the functions.
And I believe oracle copied the amazon s3 api.
I can't make a informed opinion but my uninformed gut feeling is oracle have done what they are suing google for having done.