At 09:33 AM 9/6/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is my personal opinion and all, but even knowing that Sun
>encourages open conversations on these mailing lists and blogs it seems to
>falter common sense for people from @sun.com to be commenting on this
>topic. It seems like something users should be aware of, but if I were
>working at Sun I would feel a very strong urge to clear any public
>conversation about the topic with management. As always, I do appreciate
>the frank insight given from the sun folks -- I am just worried that you
>may be doing yourself a disservice talking about it.
"The wicked flee when none pursue, but the righteous are bold as a lion."
(Proverbs 28:1)
Legally dangerous today, but I entirely understand the attitude. And
this case will be fought as much in the court of public opinion as
anywhere else; for Sun to get so lawyered up they silence their
people while NetApp's CEO is playing a restrained version of the
McBride game ... not a good idea, I think.
E.g. what am I to think about taking the last steps to get OpenSolaris
and ZFS running on my just built home file server? NetApp's assurances
they aren't going to go after non-commercial and individual users is
entirely worthless (can be withdrawn in a moment), and of course silly
WRT the long term viability of ZFS. I, for one, do not welcome our new
storage overlords, I don't want to add a $$$ NVRAM RAID-6 host adaptor
to my system and switch to Linux (ugh) since it is unlikely to have
OpenSolaris support....
- Harold
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