Every Linux User is quite interested in the Big Linux Announcement by Oracle. There is not much in it that oracle will cover.
In Red Hat Linux, there are more than 1000 packages in it and the Linux Kernel is only one of them. Since Oracle is only covering the Linux Kernel, it is not providing indemnification for the RHEL.
If you look a bit closer to Linux, then you will come to know that RHEL contains nearly 2 million files out of them only 17,000 files are related to the Kernel Of Linux that leaves the rest not covered by Oracle.
According to Oracle’s Legal department:
EXCEPT WITH RESPECT TO THE EXCLUSIVE INFRINGEMENT INDEMNIFICATION ABOVE , NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR DATA USE. ORACLE’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR ORDER, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF THE FEES YOU PAID ORACLE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, AND IF SUCH DAMAGES RESULT FROM DEFICIENT SERVICES, SUCH LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE FEES YOU PAID ORACLE FOR THE DEFICIENT SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY.
I think that Oracle is just competing with Red Hat and nothing more than that.
Via: osnews
