On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Frank Van Damme
<frank.vanda...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Op 25-05-11 14:27, joerg.moellenk...@sun.com schreef:
> > Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end
> > everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS
> > implementation
>
> Why? Given that ZFS is Solaris ZFS just as well as Nexenta ZFS just as
> well as illumos ZFS, by what reason is Oracle ZFS being declared the
> standard or reference? Because "they write the first so-many lines" or
> because they make the biggest sales on it (kinda hard to sell licenses
> to an open source product)?
>


Because they OWN the code, and the patents to protect the code.

--Tim
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