On 01/29/2013 03:08 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> From: Richard Elling >> Sent: 21 January 2013 03:51 >> VAAI has 4 features, 3 of which have been in illumos for a long time. The > remaining >> feature (SCSI UNMAP) was done by Nexenta and exists in their NexentaStor > product, >> but the CEO made a conscious (and unpopular) decision to keep that code > from the >> community. Over the summer, another developer picked up the work in the > community, >> but I've lost track of the progress and haven't seen an RTI yet. > > That is one thing that always bothered me... so it is ok for others, like > Nexenta, to keep stuff closed and not in open, while if Oracle does it they > are bad? > > Isn't it at least a little bit being hypocritical? (bashing Oracle and doing > sort of the same)
Nexenta is a downstream repository that chooses to keep some of their new developments in-house while making others open. Most importantly, they participate and make a conscious effort to play nice. Contrast this with Oracle. Oracle swoops in and buys up Sun, closes *all* of the technologies it can turn a profit on, changes licensing terms to extremely draconian and in the process takes a dump on all of the open-source community and large numbers of their customers. Now imagine which of these two is more popular in the community? (Disclaimer: my company was formerly an almost exclusive Sun shop.) Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
