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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)Posted Nov 10, 2012 13:26 UTC (Sat) by cyanit (guest, #86671)In reply to: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) by Cyberax Parent article: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)
Why is that an issue?
Surely Oracle can afford to either incorporate a new company or pay a new individual every time RedHat updates their kernel, subscribe to RHEL with it, release the patches, and then terminate the contract.
Also, couldn't that contract term be construed as an additional restriction on the patches, and thus a violation of the GPL by RedHat?
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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 10, 2012 13:49 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] This only works in countries where it's easy to bribe court to look the other way. In any sane country after few repeats all the lawsuits will be connected together and there will be looong investigation which will try to see if Oracle instigated these repeated violations in some way. Think recent Apple in UK fiasco. Apple was pretty sure that since they found clever way to issues non-apology without violating a letter of law they were in the clear. Court was not amused.
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