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By that logic, the Linux ecosystem should be paying a handsome sum to whatever litigious shadow is left holding the UNIX IP.
by jclulow 10y ago
By that logic, the Linux ecosystem should be paying a handsome sum to whatever litigious shadow is left holding the UNIX IP.
- dragandj 10y agoApparently not, because "GNU is Not Unix", while Google deliberately marketed their language as Java to developers.
- jclulow 10y agoIt is extremely disingenuous to suggest that some combination of the Linux kernel and surrounding libraries are not intentionally knocking off at least a large subset of UNIX APIs. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, which is part of what makes the Oracle assault so disgusting.