On Dec 26, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 11:58 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: > >>> On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:35 PM, John Stalberg wrote: >>>> >>>> Apple themselfs might not provide this but ZFS from the community could >>>> achive what you are asking for I belive? >>> >> >> Speculation on why Apple did not continue their ZFS project and make it a >> part of OS X is the potential for legal repercussions and Sun/Oracle failure >> to stand behind and indemnify Apple. Supposedly, Apple was willing to pay >> money to license ZFS, but wanted to be indemnified against IP claims from >> others, which Sun/Oracle were not willing to do. > > This had to do with the NetApp complaint. That was settled in 2010. Yet the > ZFS macforge project was not resumed. Maybe Apple still has an issue with > CDDL? Not sure.
Not only the NetApp complaint. It was the general idea of indemnification in case other complaints come forwards. NetApp was part of it, of course. (And by then, maybe Apple was going other directions). _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
