On 06.11.2010 17:44, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: >>> On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >>>> Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people >>>> who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than >>>> Solaris from using it? >>>> >>>> Whether you think concerns like these will prove reasonable in the long >>>> run, they make a lot more sense than assuming that Alejandro just >> wonders >>>> if the CDDL is "dangerous" somehow. >>>> >>> >>> I would be surprised. Oracle (real Oracle, not Sun) is still the primary >>> developer of btrfs on Linux. They are pretty much going for feature >>> parity with ZFS and want people to actually use it. If they start suing >>> over ZFS patents which are certainly applicable to btrfs, it will have >>> repercussions on that side. >> >> Perhaps. >> >> On the other hand, Oracle could offer some kind of "patent covenant" >> protecting btrfs while going after a ZFS fork as a way of "focing" people >> to migrate from it to btrfs, as a more hostile way of achieving what >> Microsoft does when it ends support for an older OS to get people to buy >> the newer Windows release. >> >> . . . or maybe Oracle will decide it doesn't need the open source >> community's help any longer at some future date, and shut down *both* >> open source filesystem development projects. >> >> Oracle is known to be at least intermittently hostile toward open source >> software, in ways that are sometimes more frightening than Microsoft's >> hostility. This is scaring people, and I don't blame them. The >> uncertainty about Oracle's future position on everything it has acquired >> with Sun is something that will need to be tested and observed to see how >> it shakes out in the next few years; in the meantime, I do not blame >> anyone for being cautious about committing to use of open source software >> under the Oracle umbrella. >> >> -- >> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] >> > > Chad, what are these attachments to your e-mail? My client keeps flagging > your mail as questionable and I'm sandboxing it to make sure it's nothing > bad :D
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