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@Willow@social.translunar.academy @WPalant@infosec.exchange @freya@social.highenergymagic.net @nyovaya@transfem.social @Primavera@void.lgbt sorry for resurrecting this thread, just want to say that nope, Oracle owns less than half the code in OpenZFS, due to the amount of non-Sun development since ~2007. They couldn't relicense it even if they wanted to. The CDDL does have a GPL style "or later" clause, allowing Sun/Oracle to create a new license which automatically applies to things under the old license, buuuut, no one trusts Oracle, so quite a bit of the newer code in OpenZFS has that clause removed. In any case, compiling OpenZFS for Linux and distributing the kernel modules probably violates the GPL license of the kernel, but it seemingly doesn't violate the CDDL. So Oracle doesn't have any standing to sue Canonical or Alpine Linux or anyone else doing it. Linus Torvalds has standing to sue. Since Linus probably isn't planning to sue people for using OpenZFS, there's probably no danger. This is not legal advice.

@ids1024@fosstodon.org @jernej__s@infosec.exchange @atax1a@infosec.exchange @thephd@pony.social as a rule, CISCs did not conform their ISAs to the microarchitecture. That was a bigger thing with RISC, having the ISA and microarchitecture have a close fit. But honestly, that was and still is a bad idea. ISAs shouldn't fit the HW. They should fit being easy to use to get good performance. The old RISC ISAs became road blocks whenever new microarchitectural innovations were made. No good way to make multiplication hardware? Just do it in software, CISCs all microcode it anyway. Someone invents really good HW multiplication? CISC users just upgrade and multiplication becomes faster, RISC users need to update their compilers, and make new binaries that won't run on the previous generation. Microarch induces delays in some situations? Aha, let's have delay slots! New microarchitectural paradigm makes delay slots super annoying? Shoot.

@shac@ioc.exchange @thephd@pony.social users want something that cannot exist: they want mystical low level hardware control, that is somehow highly portable, and also runs super super fast.

@Mae@is.badat.dev @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems you can totally run a full X11 window manager inside Cage+XWayland, but idk how well it works.