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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by gillianseed on Saturday June 13, 2015 @07:50PM (#9713209)
>Both of which GNU regards as free software licenses, but says to not use them because they don't bow to the FSF.

CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use ZFS and DTRACE which were technical crown-jewels of Solaris.

>The binary in memory linking clause is the most harmful thing to ever happen to free software.

What ?

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by bahamat on Sunday June 14, 2015 @11:31AM (#9715211)
> CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use ZFS and DTRACE

Not true at all.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/i_am_the_cto_o...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...

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