On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 13:59 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> > Once the code is in the open, it'll remain there. To quote Cory Doctorow
> > on this, it's easy release the source of a project, it's like adding ink
> > to your swimming pool, but it's a little harder to remove the ink from
> > the pool...
>
> Woo-hoo, the code already released won't be taken back ;). But considering
> virtually all zfs development has been and presumably will continue to be
> by Sun/Oracle employees, that code is going to get stale pretty quick if
> they stop contributing to it...
>
>
I wish folks would realize something important:
Continued release of the source code for ON is *not* dependent on any
"OpenSolaris" community or on any binary distribution. I *strongly*
doubt that Oracle is going to stop making source code available.... it
costs them almost nothing (compared to the rest of the "community"
efforts, which did cost Sun significantly with little or no gain).
Furthermore, the open source of Solaris is critical to many Solaris
customers, and I think exec mgmt realizes that if they tried to close it
back up, they'd lose far more than just Solaris customers, but probably
also Oracle DB customers.
The *code* is probably not going away (even updates to the kernel).
Even if the community dies, is killed, or commits OGB induced suicide.
There is another piece I'll add: even if Oracle were to stop releasing
ZFS or OpenSolaris source code, there are enough of us with a vested
interest (commercial!) in its future that we would continue to develop
it outside of Oracle. It won't just go stagnant and die. I believe I
can safely say that Nexenta is committed to the continued development
and enhancement of this code base -- and to doing so in the open.
- Garrett
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