adamleventhal

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by adamleventhal 11y ago
It's a fair critique though I didn't write this because I thought I was breaking news. The Canonical announcement was honestly exciting for me, in particular because they evaluated the licensing issues and decided that they were w
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by adamleventhal 11y ago
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-... "Nominal statutory damages, divided among the thousands of copyright holders entitled to equal shares, scarcely lift the matter above the level
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by adamleventhal 11y ago
Agreed on the second point, but no one (to my knowledge) is contending that Oracle's copyrights or patents are being violated.
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by adamleventhal 11y ago
Lots of people do exactly that. In fact, many companies even use software for which the licenses have lapsed or they never owned licenses in the first place. Sometimes it's by accident; in other cases it's a knowing acceptance
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by adamleventhal 11y ago
"As with anything, evaluate the technology, evaluate the risks, and move on." I've been selling to enterprise customers for a little while now. All technology has risk, new technology and the status quo alike. Companies weigh
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by adamleventhal 11y ago
"In the end, perhaps what matters is that Ubuntu users should be able to use ZFS without fear of consequences. However, morally they should be aware that ZFS in Ubuntu is a violation in the opinion of many the experts." I don&#x27
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Why I Don't Use the GPL(youtube.com)
2 points by adamleventhal 11y ago|1 comments
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by adamleventhal 13y ago
The data is from the good folks at Objective Analysis.
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by adamleventhal 13y ago
Everything works "fine" on SSDs! They were designed to drop right into place.
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by adamleventhal 13y ago
That list is specious at best. Take ZFS. I designed the flash integration for ZFS; it's used as a caching tier. ZFS is definitely not optimized for use with flash as its primary backing store. The same is true for some of the other filesyst
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by adamleventhal 13y ago
... and the prognosis for OpenSSD is terminal.
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by adamleventhal 13y ago
Agreed that Apple is very well-positioned for this -- the question is whether they care about the problem. A purpose-built filesystem would improve performance and longevity at a lower cost. Is it worth it for Apple to invest in a brand new
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by adamleventhal 14y ago
Brian, your premise is interesting, but the post was spare on details. What were the remarkable aspects of your culture? Did you back into it or did you do something deliberate to inculcate that those aspects of the culture?
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by adamleventhal 15y ago
It's a thorny legal issue, all right. I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.
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by adamleventhal 15y ago
... or if they posted the source code...
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by adamleventhal 15y ago
When a company the size of Oracle announces something at their premiere conference, it's reliably not something they thought of for the first time that morning. If Ed Screven was a developer, hacking up DTrace for OEL, and writing on his bl