Re: Kernel work update

[Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 18:14 -0800, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:39:43PM -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> It does. It's in the FAQ. Feel free to forward this to the
> list as said list doesn't seem to like this email address and
> I'm too lazy to fix that.
> 
> -D

After a little research, especially on groklaw, it looks like you're
right. Most of the concern seems to be over third parties like
Microsoft.

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Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx>