... generally the community is OK with this, many fear the loss of ZFS support which is currently not available in the standard linux kernel due to licensing incompatibilities between the GPL and Sun’s CDDL. Red Hat has released its second update this year to its MRG (Messaging, Real-Time, Grid) platform. Sean Michael Kerner has the skinny in Red Hat Speeds Up Real-Time Linux. Software In ...

... steal the code and are forced to share back, right? Well, first of all, licenses lead to complicated trouble. Take dtrace, which apparently is a great piece of unix software. But it’s CDDL license is apparently incompatible with GPL. So it hasn’t been ported to Linux, and exists only under OSX and BSD. So licenses are not only good. And surprisingly, open source seems to work better ...