On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andre van Eyssen<an...@purplecow.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Cyril Plisko wrote:
>
>> There is an ongoing speculations of what/when/how deduplication will
>> be in ZFS and I am curious: what is the reason to keep the thing
>> secret ? I always thought open source assumes open development
>> process. What exactly people behind deduplication effort trying to
>> prove by keeping their mouth shut ?
>>
>> Something feels wrong...
>
> The conference is less than a week away. It's hardly keeping things secret
> to announce at a public conference!
I am talking about the process, not the announcement.
> You should remember that the Amber Road product was announced at a
> conference, too - and was kept reasonably quiet until the announcement. I'm
> just glad I was at the conference where Amber Road was announced and will be
> attending KCA!
Amber Road isn't open source. With ZFS deduplication it is at least a
general expectation that it will be open source.
--
Regards,
Cyril
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