Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 16:25:40 UTC 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Is that particularly different than SCO's claims against IBM/Linux?  Or 
the patents that Microsoft claims it holds that are used in Linux?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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