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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…

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-... "Nominal statutory damages, divided among the thousands of copyright holders entitled to equal shares, scarcely lift…

Agreed on the second point, but no one (to my knowledge) is contending that Oracle's copyrights or patents are being violated.

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 acci…

"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 technol…

"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 violati…

The data is from the good folks at Objective Analysis.

Everything works "fine" on SSDs! They were designed to drop right into place.

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 ba…

... and the prognosis for OpenSSD is terminal.

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 l…

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 …

It's a thorny legal issue, all right. I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.

... or if they posted the source code...

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…