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Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by brazzledazzle on Monday March 07, 2016 @02:11PM (#11240828)
I think it's safe to say there's a world of difference between license violations for a piece of software that's closed source, proprietary and sold for profit and a license incompatibility on two open source projects caused by a single clause in licenses that are otherwise compatible.

You may have the chops and cred to call someone stupid that wrote dtrace but I'd certainly hesitate before doing so myself.

Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by jra_samba on Monday March 07, 2016 @02:33PM (#11240976)
People can be very smart technically, yet legally very naive. This is a very naive legal position, which I certainly feel justified in calling "stupid, stupid, stupid".
Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by brazzledazzle on Monday March 07, 2016 @03:12PM (#11241264)
Certainly if I was a lawyer I'd probably feel comfortable using an insult like "stupid" to describe a legal position but I'm not. You might be, I don't know. But it's still unnecessarily negative.