Re: Kernel work update

[Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:37 -0800, walt wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> [...]
> >     This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work...
> 
> I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this:
> 
> "...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology,
> which is unique to ZFS..."
> 
> I still don't know was ZFS is, but now I know it's proprietary,
> like java, with all the same baggage attached.
> 
> Sun is playing nice with open-source at the moment, but will
> they continue to play nice when their stock price drops yet
> another 50% ?  I dunno.  I hope so.

Do they have a choice? The CDDL might preclude the sort of legal action
you're worried about.

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Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx>