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>The judgement to settle the compatibility will take years and could go either way, costing billions of dollars to either company. Who would the suit be betwee
by mastax 9y ago
>The judgement to settle the compatibility will take years and could go either way, costing billions of dollars to either company.
Who would the suit be between? Oracle and Canonical?
>Risks are sky high and no sane company should invest in it. It's worse than being just incompatible.
Companies don't seem to have a problem using Nvidia's binary kernel driver so I doubt it.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoI don't think the CDDL gets breached when the two get combined, so Oracle is unlikely. Any Linux contributor could sue though.
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- user5994461 9y agoOracle, RedHat, IBM, Google, Facebook. Any telco or embedded hardware manufacturer who has significant revenues and ship their own Linux/Unix derivatives. Canonical is the smallest company, it has the least to lose.