[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 10/10/12 11:48 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Alas, like many discussions about legalities (even those with
> lawyers and accountants and such), there are no concrete good
> answers like "do this" or "don't do that" (except the fighting
> club rule #1 - don't talk about it).

Unfortunately, law is not well engineered - it's not a stable code base that is
compiled to a form which always does the same thing with predictable/guaranteed
results if you provide conforming input, but always evolving, highly localized,
and vastly subject to different results depending on the interpreter.   What
seems obvious to one lawyer may be completely opposite of what a judge or jury
rules when a case goes to trial.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
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