Am 08.05.2012 10:15, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Well, not verbatim. There are differences.
Now, if he so judges, that would mean the end of the wine, samba and
many other open or closed source projects.
I suspect that this would be taken to a higher court by the FSF and
other organisations as Redhat, Linux.org.
They would all have to close shop after such a ruling.
Although I think that people would argue that the unix API was based on
work which has ended up in the public domain, and has been extended in
ways that are obvious to anybody "skilled in the art".
Superficially, Oracle can't wreck Linux since they sell an
implementation. However they also own Solaris, and since their high-end
kit works better with Solaris than with Linux my own feeling is that
they'd like more people to use it.
It's not about Oracle wrecking everyone, but companies that originally
developed some API wrecking those that reimplemented it. Especially the
Wine or ReactOS projects are "good" candidates for this (as Samba and
Mono cooperate more or less with Microsoft I don't see that much
problems for them).
Regards,
Sven
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