On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: >> yeah, you gotta wonder about that. >> No, really, you don't. >> Those that tell you it is about "Freedom" are mostly full of shit. >> It's about "it didn't cost me anything" to most of them. > > We've got an entire operating system which is completely free as a > base; besides that, a shrinking set of GPL2 components are used to > help us build. Maybe in the future that will change. A variety of > choices are slowly in play. > > And now, because of "ZFS and dtrace", we should throw that entire > Bostic-started effort out the window. Screw freedom, I need ZFS and > dtrace. > > Don't be fooled. This request does not come from people who love ZFS > or dtrace. It comes from people who apparently love btoh ZFS _and_ > dtrace (otherwise, once in a while we'd get a mail from someone who > only mentions ZFS, right?). Because, as you all know, everyone needs > both "ZFS and dtrace", or they are doomed and it is a certainly that > Satan and Bill will consume their souls for eternity. Yes, I need > dtrace. Today tomorrow and forever, or I will go to hell. dtrace or > death. > > Yes, some of you will think I am silly, but if you do, please go check > some mail archives and you will see that apparently most ZFS people > don't care about ZFS, unless they post to *BSD mailing lists, and then > suddenly pushing dtrace becomes a real pressure point. > > I don't know where these people come from but they seem like agents of > Stallman or Company X or Company Y, at the very least some kind of > "divide and conquer" or "divide or conquer" effort is in play. Don't > even bother to respond to such people, unless your mail explains to > others what is going on. The real key phrase to watch for here is > that there are people who always mix "ZFS and dtrace" together. > Everytime they are mixed together, the person posting it is of the > type that has zero use for dtrace. They've been fooled by someone to > equate those two as "equal value". > > Who are these "ZFS and dtrace" people? Are they HFT programmers? I > really don't know. Do they help the project? I can assure you that > they do not. > > I bet they couldn't use dtrace to their advantage of their life > depended on it. > > Yet "ZFS and dtrace" so often mentioned together... > > Don't be fooled. In fact, I urge our users to investigate every > person who has mentioned "ZFS and dtrace" together in the past. Their > agenda is not the one that you or I believe in. Their agenda is > division. > >
DTrace is really really really cool but it is totally inadvisable to integrate because of future problems. I don't think Free and Net learnt anything from the old Unix lawsuit, the whole unpleasantness of it.
