On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Frank Cusack <frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net>wrote:
> On 8/17/10 9:14 AM -0400 Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Frank Cusack <frank+lists/z...@linetwo.net> >> wrote: >> >> On 8/16/10 9:57 AM -0400 Ross Walker wrote: >>> >>>> No, the only real issue is the license and I highly doubt Oracle will >>>> re-release ZFS under GPL to dilute it's competitive advantage. >>>> >>> >>> You're saying Oracle wants to keep zfs out of Linux? >>> >> >> I would if I were them, wouldn't you? >> > > I'm not sure either way. > > If Oracle really wants to keep it out of Linux, that means it wants > to keep it out of FreeBSD also. Either way, to keep it out it needs > to make it closed source, and as they say, the genie is already out > of the bottle. > > I don't agree that there's a licensing problem, but that doesn't matter. > Distributions, which is how nearly EVERYONE uses Linux, are free to > include zfs on their own. All the major distributions already patch > the kernel heavily. > > FreeBSD has nowhere near the installed base of Linux. There is also absolutely 0 "Enterprise" support for FreeBSD. ZFS will not change that. It is not a threat to Oracle. --Tim
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